Australian Dictionary of Biography

11 December, 1873
Carisbrook, Victoria, Australia

1 November, 1947 (aged 73)
Windsor, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

cancer (not specified)

• English

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Victorian Asylum and School for the Blind (St Kilda, Melbourne) (student, 1882-1889)
• University of Melbourne (student, 1890-1891)

• community worker (1894-1940) Victoria, Australia
• esperantist (1901-1946) Victoria, Australia
• poet (1901-1947) Victoria, Australia
• short story writer (1901-1947) Victoria, Australia
• magazine/journal editor (1913-1925) Victoria, Australia
• schoolteacher (1913-1925) Victoria, Australia
• songwriter (1924-1935) Victoria, Australia
• autobiographer/memoirist (1946-1946) Victoria, Australia

• Bread and Cheese Club (Melbourne) (member)

• Tilly Aston Award for Braille Book of the Year (eponym)

• Association for the Advancement of the Blind (Vic) (member)
• Victorian Braille Library (member, 1894)
• Association for the Advancement of the Blind (Vic) (president, 1947-1947)

• Victorian Asylum and School for the Blind (St Kilda, Melbourne) (teacher, 1913-1925)
• Victorian Asylum and School for the Blind (St Kilda, Melbourne) (life governor, 1925-1947)