Margaret Carnegie

For the American philanthropist, see Margaret Carnegie Miller.

Margaret Frances Carnegie AO (14 March 1910 – 5 August 2002) was an Australian writer, art patron and collector.

Biography

Margaret Frances Carnegie was born in Melbourne on 14 March 1910, daughter of Henry George Allen and Amelia Burberry.[1] She was educated at Lauriston Girls' School and then a finishing school in Switzerland.[2] She married Douglas Howard Carnegie on 11 March 1931 at Scots' Church, Melbourne.[3]

Desmond Digby's portrait of Carnegie was a finalist for the 1966 Archibald Prize. It was acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1991.[4]

The 1976 film, Mad Dog Morgan, was based on her book, Morgan: The Bold Bushranger.[5]

Carnegie was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 1985 Australia Day Honours.[6] She was promoted to Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to art, literature and to local history".[7]

Carnegie was awarded an honorary doctor of letters by Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.[8][9] The university holds the Margaret Carnegie Collection of Australiana within its archives.[10]

Carnegie died on 5 August 2002.[11] She was predeceased by her husband in 1998.[2] Her son, Roderick Carnegie, and three daughters survived her.[11]

Selected works

Books

• Carnegie, Margaret; Hawthorn Press (1973), Friday Mount : first settlement at Holbrook and the south-western slopes of New South Wales, Hawthorn Press, ISBN 978-0-7256-0108-9
• Carnegie, Margaret (1974), Morgan, the bold bushranger, Hawthorn Press, ISBN 978-0-7256-0109-6
• Swan, Keith; Carnegie, Margaret (1979), In step with Sturt, Graphic Books, ISBN 978-0-9596365-5-0
• Carnegie, Margaret; Shields, Frank (1979), In search of Breaker Morant: Balladist and bushveldt carbineer (Paperback ed.), H. H. Stephenson, ISBN 978-0-9596365-1-2
• Carnegie, Margaret (1992), William Knox D'Arcy: Australian gold and Persian oil, Kildrummie Press, ISBN 978-0-646-07850-2
• Carnegie, Margaret; Boldrewood, Rolf (1993), Pacific gold: California 1848 Australia 1851, including Genesis of gold-fields law in Australia, Kildrummie Press, ISBN 978-0-646-14045-2

Libretto

• Martin, Desmond; Carnegie, Margaret; Rolfe, Douglas G (1984), Gabriel and Louisa: An Australian ballad operetta : a somewhat frivolous version of the romantic history of Gabriel Louis Marie Huon de Keriliau and his wife Louisa, during the foundation years of Australia, 1788 to 1892, A.K.P.

References

1. Allen, Margaret Frances. "Birth certificate: 12774/1910". Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
2. "Great collector of art and teller of our tales". The Sydney Morning Herald. 9 August 2002. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
3. "Family Notices". The Australasian. Vol. CXXX, no. 4,288. Victoria, Australia. 14 March 1931. p. 11. Retrieved 1 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "Margaret Carnegie with orange dress and specs, 1966, To do with the blue by Desmond Digby". Art Gallery NSW. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
5. "BUSHRANGER DAN MORGAN STATES HIS CASE". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 43, no. 53. Australia. 2 June 1976. p. 42. Retrieved 2 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
6. "Mrs Margaret Francis Carnegie". It's An Honour. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
7. "Mrs Margaret Frances Carnegie, OAM". It's An Honour. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
8. "Ms Margaret Frances Carnegie: Citation for the conferral of a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa)" (PDF). Charles Sturt University. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
9. "Honorary Awards". Charles Sturt University. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
10. Carnegie, Margaret; Reid-Smith, Edward R. (1996), Margaret Frances Carnegie, the writer : an examination of materials in the Carnegie Collection at the Wagga Campus Library of Charles Sturt University, Charles Sturt University, ISBN 978-1-875781-92-8
11. "Margaret Carnegie Obituary (2002) - Herald Sun". www.legacy.com. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

External links

• Margaret Carnegie, collector and patron