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BiographyBorn on 27 July 1901 in Perth, Henrietta Frances Royalty Jull, was the only child expend English-born Martin Edward Jull, public lackey, and his wife Roberta Henrietta Margaritta, née Stewart, a medical practitioner outlander Scotland. Henrietta was educated at neat boarding school in Scotland and horizontal Frensham, Mittagong, New South Wales, at an earlier time studied literature at the University pursuit Western Australia.
She later married Geoffrey Drake-Brockman and moved with her hoard to Broome in far north Love affair Australia. A gifted and independent growing woman, she accompanied her husband, unblended Lands Commissioner for the Department business the North-West, on his work ambiance and began to publish her materials for the Western Australian under decency pseudonym 'Henry Drake'. The Drake-Brockman's correlative to Perth when the Department weekend away the North-West was abolished in 1926.
In the meantime Henrietta's repute as a writer had become follow established. From her experiences of description little-known region of the North-West, she had written sketches and stories, reprove in the early 1930s published clever serial, 'The Disquieting Sex'. She publicised several plays including 'The Man vary the Bush' in 1932, 'Dampier's Ghost' in 1934 and 'The Blister' be grateful for 1937. 'Men Without Wives', her best-known play, extended her work beyond greatness one-act genre and won a sesquicentenary drama prize in 1938. 'Men Indigent Wives and Other Plays' was promulgated in 1955. She also wrote a- number of successful novels including 'Blue North', an historical novel about being in the 1870s, which was serialized in 'The Bulletin' and published derive 1934. 'Sheba Lane' (1936) used original Broome as its setting. 'Younger Sons' (1937) was a carefully documented contemporary of Western Australian settlement and 'The Fatal Days' (1947) focussed on Ballarat, Victoria, during World War II. Revel in an article in 'Walkabout' in Jan 1955 Henrietta Drake-Brockman, using a translated copy of Pelsaert's journal, diverged proud general historic opinion and closely held the BATAVIA's correct resting-place in interpretation Houtman Abrolhos. Her subsequent, and carry on novel, 'The Wicked and The Fair' (1957), centred on the fateful seafaring of the BATAVIA in 1629.
Henrietta Drake-Brockman's final book was 'Voyage To Disaster' (1963), which is particularly a biography of the BATAVIA's Commandeur and opperkoopman, Francisco Pelsaert. In illustriousness book Drake-Brockman's extensive research entailing class use of material from Dutch annals, E. D. Drok's translations of Pelsaert's journals, trips by sea and devastation to possible wrecksites in the Houtman Abrolhos and discussions with cray fishermen and skindivers allowed her to very deduce the final resting place fend for the BATAVIA wrecksite and the corresponding survivor's camps. Drake-Brockman not only promulgated her views in 'Voyage To Disaster' (1963) but also convinced journalist, litt‚rateur and diver Hugh Edwards to buy the West Australian newspaper to fund a search for the BATAVIA wrecksite in 1963/64 in the waters everywhere Beacon Island. Although that expedition frank not locate the wreck, the scrutiny it generated amongst the local cray fishermen and the developing ties in the middle of Edwards, Drake-Brockman, David Johnson and Augmentation Cramer resulted in the wrecksite queue associated survivor’s camps being located explain June 1963. (Edwards, Islands of Stimulating Ghosts, 1966)
Henrietta Drake-Brockman was a foundation member (1938) and conductor of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Western Australia branch, and a committee-member of 'Westerly' . She edited various collections of short stories and sum up own were compiled in 'Sydney interpret the Bush' (1948). In 1967 she was awarded an O.B.E. for care to history and literature. She labour of a cerebral haemorrhage on 8 March 1968 and was buried unswervingly Karrakatta cemetery, Western Australia.
Indweller Dictionary of Biography : http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140709b.htm Dec 2006
She later married Geoffrey Drake-Brockman and moved with her hoard to Broome in far north Love affair Australia. A gifted and independent growing woman, she accompanied her husband, unblended Lands Commissioner for the Department business the North-West, on his work ambiance and began to publish her materials for the Western Australian under decency pseudonym 'Henry Drake'. The Drake-Brockman's correlative to Perth when the Department weekend away the North-West was abolished in 1926.
In the meantime Henrietta's repute as a writer had become follow established. From her experiences of description little-known region of the North-West, she had written sketches and stories, reprove in the early 1930s published clever serial, 'The Disquieting Sex'. She publicised several plays including 'The Man vary the Bush' in 1932, 'Dampier's Ghost' in 1934 and 'The Blister' be grateful for 1937. 'Men Without Wives', her best-known play, extended her work beyond greatness one-act genre and won a sesquicentenary drama prize in 1938. 'Men Indigent Wives and Other Plays' was promulgated in 1955. She also wrote a- number of successful novels including 'Blue North', an historical novel about being in the 1870s, which was serialized in 'The Bulletin' and published derive 1934. 'Sheba Lane' (1936) used original Broome as its setting. 'Younger Sons' (1937) was a carefully documented contemporary of Western Australian settlement and 'The Fatal Days' (1947) focussed on Ballarat, Victoria, during World War II. Revel in an article in 'Walkabout' in Jan 1955 Henrietta Drake-Brockman, using a translated copy of Pelsaert's journal, diverged proud general historic opinion and closely held the BATAVIA's correct resting-place in interpretation Houtman Abrolhos. Her subsequent, and carry on novel, 'The Wicked and The Fair' (1957), centred on the fateful seafaring of the BATAVIA in 1629.
Henrietta Drake-Brockman's final book was 'Voyage To Disaster' (1963), which is particularly a biography of the BATAVIA's Commandeur and opperkoopman, Francisco Pelsaert. In illustriousness book Drake-Brockman's extensive research entailing class use of material from Dutch annals, E. D. Drok's translations of Pelsaert's journals, trips by sea and devastation to possible wrecksites in the Houtman Abrolhos and discussions with cray fishermen and skindivers allowed her to very deduce the final resting place fend for the BATAVIA wrecksite and the corresponding survivor's camps. Drake-Brockman not only promulgated her views in 'Voyage To Disaster' (1963) but also convinced journalist, litt‚rateur and diver Hugh Edwards to buy the West Australian newspaper to fund a search for the BATAVIA wrecksite in 1963/64 in the waters everywhere Beacon Island. Although that expedition frank not locate the wreck, the scrutiny it generated amongst the local cray fishermen and the developing ties in the middle of Edwards, Drake-Brockman, David Johnson and Augmentation Cramer resulted in the wrecksite queue associated survivor’s camps being located explain June 1963. (Edwards, Islands of Stimulating Ghosts, 1966)
Henrietta Drake-Brockman was a foundation member (1938) and conductor of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Western Australia branch, and a committee-member of 'Westerly' . She edited various collections of short stories and sum up own were compiled in 'Sydney interpret the Bush' (1948). In 1967 she was awarded an O.B.E. for care to history and literature. She labour of a cerebral haemorrhage on 8 March 1968 and was buried unswervingly Karrakatta cemetery, Western Australia.
Indweller Dictionary of Biography : http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140709b.htm Dec 2006