Nevill drury biography of albert

  • When Drury Albert Newell was born in 1822, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Alexander D. Newell, was 25 and his mother, Nancy Bobbitt, was 32.
  • A moving biography of the art, life and magical practices of King Cross witch Rosaleen Norton.
  • New art six: profiles in contemporary Australian art / edited by Nevill Drury.

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    Drury, Nevill. The Witch of Kings Cross


    Gerald Murnane, Landscape with Landscape, Norstrilia, 1985. Signed by the author. Sold.


    Mal Morgan (Ed.), La Mama Poetica, Melbourne University Press, 1989.


    Tony Birch, Shadowboxing, Scribe, 2006.


    John Tranter, Selected Poems, Hale & Iremonger, 1982.


    Tara June Winch, The Yield, Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2019.


    Coordinating Collective: Di Brown, Heather Ellyard and Barbara Polkinghorne, Angry Women: Anthology of Australian Women’s Writing, Hale & Iremonger, 1989.


    Helen Garner, Monkey Grip, McPhee Gribble, 1977.


    Alexis Wright, Plains of Promise, University of Queensland Press, 1997.


    Frank Moorhouse, The Electrical Experience, Angus & Robertson, 1974. Signed by the author.


    Janine Burke, Joy Hester, Greenhouse Publications, 1983. Sold.

    Painting, Ania Walwicz, by Gary Willis, February 2020.

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    Selected Biographies

    Drury, Charles – Born: Long Melford, Suffolk on 4.6.1874.[1]Parents: Amos Drury (Coconut Mat Maker) and Jane [née Grimwood] (Coconut föda Binder).  Family Connections: Brother to George Drury [b1876] and Robert Drury [b1890]; also, cousin of Frederick Drury [b1884] and Lawrence Drury [b1889], brother-in-law of Alfred Jackson [b1878] and Bertie Charles Gardiner [b1880], and father-in-law of Arthur Root [b1901].  Home: The Green, Long Melford (1881 to 1901), Bull Lane, Long Melford (1911), Cordell Cottages, High Street, Long Melford (1921 to 1939).  Occupation: Wool Winder at George Whittle’s Coconut föda Factory (1891), Coconut föda Maker (1901 to 1939).  Married: Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Brewster in 1901.  Service Record: From 1897 to 1908 Charles was a member of 2nd [Volunteer] Battalion, Suffolk Regiment and from 1908 to 1913 served as Pte.263 in 5th Battalion, Suffolks, [Territorial].  He was mobilised on 5.

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    Drury Albert Newell

    When Drury Albert Newell was born in 1822, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Alexander D. Newell, was 25 and his mother, Nancy Bobbitt, was 32. He married Martha Elizabeth Wilder in 1852. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Beat 2, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States in 1860. He died on 8 February 1865, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.

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