Lynbrook Street Signage

Lynbrook streets memorialise a number of Australian writers.

D’arcy Niland Crescent

Australian novelist and short story writer, perhaps best known for The Shiralee, the story of an Australian swagman and his four year old daughter.

Melway Map Ref: 129 C2 Surveyed on: 22 Sep 2011 by Lynne

Ethel Turner Place

Australian novelist and children’s writer, perhaps best known for Seven Little Australians, the story of the seven Woolcot chidlren.

Melway Map Ref: 129 E4 Surveyed on: 27 Nov 2011 by Lynne

May Gibbs Crescent

Children’s author and illustrator, creator of the Gumnut Babies.

Melway Map Ref: 129 B1 Surveyed on: 26 Feb 2012 by Lynne

Amy Mack Walk

Children’s author, journalist and editor of the ‘Women’s Page’ of the Sydney Morning Herald 1907 – 1914.

Melway Map Ref: 129 C2 Surveyed on: 26 Feb 2012 by Lynne

Louise Mack Walk

Novelist, poet, journalist and editor. The first woman war correspondent in Belgium in 1914, published A Woman’s Experiences in the Great War in 1915.

Melway Map Ref: 129 C2 Surveyed on: 26 Feb 2012 by Lynne

Henry Lawson Drive

Journalist, novelist, short story writer and poet. Author of The Drover’s Wife and While the Billy Boils.

Melway Map Ref: 129 B1 Surveyed on: 26 Feb 2012 by Lynne

Morris West Circuit

Australian novelist, author of The Devil’s Advocate and numerous other suspense novels.

Melway Map Ref: 129 D1 Surveyed on: 26 Feb 2012 by Lynne

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