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Catherine Baker OBE (1861–1953) was an Irish-born Australian teacher, best known for encouraging and championing her friend Joseph Furphy, who wrote the quintessential Australian novel of its period, Such Is Life. Despite an indifferent reception by the general public upon its initial publication in 1909, when it was written under the pen name Tom Collins, after Furphy's death Baker championed his work and had much of it rescued and republished. Miles Franklin incorporated Baker's recollections into the essay "Who Was Joseph Furphy?", which won the S. H. Prior Memorial Prize in 1939. Baker was appointed an OBE in 1937 for her efforts in promoting Furphy's work and to broader Australian literature. She was an influential part of the Australian literary scene, supporting, writing to and enco

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rdfs:comment	Catherine Baker OBE (1861–1953) was an Irish-born Australian teacher, best known for encouraging and championing her friend Joseph Furphy, who wrote the quintessential Australian novel of its period, Such Is Life. Despite an indifferent reception by the general public upon its initial publication in 1909, when it was written under the pen name Tom Collins, after Furphy's death Baker championed his work and had much of it rescued and republished. Miles Franklin incorporated Baker's recollections into the essay "Who Was Joseph Furphy?", which won the S. H. Prior Memorial Prize in 1939. Baker was appointed an OBE in 1937 for her efforts in promoting Furphy's work and to broader Australian literature. She was an influential part of the Australian literary scene, supporting, writing to and enco (en)
foaf:name	Kate Baker (en)
name	Kate Baker (en)
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birth place	Cappoquin County Waterford
death place	Camberwell, Victoria
death place	Camberwell, Victoria, Australia (en)
death date	1953-09-07 (xsd:date)
birth place	Cappoquin, County Waterford, Ireland (en)
birth date	1861-04-23 (xsd:date)
dcterms:subject	1953 deaths 19th-century Australian educators 1861 births Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century Australian women People from County Waterford Irish emigrants to colonial Australia People from Williamstown, Victoria
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Camberwell, Victoria Cappoquin Bernard O'Dowd Department of Education and Training (Victoria) Jonathan Cape Pen name Culture of Australia Burramboot, Victoria University of Wollongong Vance Palmer Victor Kennedy Victorian Legislative Assembly 1953 deaths County Waterford Rushworth, Victoria 19th-century Australian educators Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Frank Dalby Davison Frederick Macartney General Post Office, Melbourne Mitchell Library The Socialist (Australian newspaper) The West Australian Leonardo da Vinci State Library of New South Wales Commonwealth Literary Fund Fellowship of Australian Writers Speaker (politics) Such Is Life (novel) Australian Council for Civil Liberties 1861 births Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire Typhoid fever William John Miles Williamstown, Victoria John Furphy Ada Cambridge Alice Henry Edith Coleman Edith Cowan University Footscray, Victoria Angus & Robertson Bread and Cheese Club P. R. Stephensen Edward Harrington (poet) Joseph Furphy Hay, New South Wales Henry Lawson Arthur Upfield Association for the Study of Australian Literature

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