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Life Summary

Name	Dorothy Green
Alternative Names	Dorothy Auchterlounie
Born	28 May, 1915 Sunderland, Durham, England
Died	21 February, 1991 (aged 75) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Cultural Heritage	English Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Religious Influence	Anglican Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Green, Henry Mackenzie (husband) Wright, Judith Arundell (friend) Guthrie, Bessie Jean (work colleague) Hope, Alec Derwent (work colleague) Boyd, Martin à Beckett (subject)
Education *	North Sydney Girls High School (student, 1927-1933) University of Sydney (student, 1934-1939)
Occupation or Descriptor *	poet (1939-1961) New South Wales, Australia literary critic (1942-1950) New South Wales, Australia schoolteacher (1950-1961) Queensland, Australia academic (1961-1964) Victoria, Australia literary scholar (1961-1964) Victoria, Australia poet (1961-1964) Victoria, Australia academic (1964-1980) Australian Capital Territory, Australia literary scholar (1964-1991) Australian Capital Territory, Australia poet (1964-1991) Australian Capital Territory, Australia anti-nuclear campaigner (1980-1991) Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Awards	Barbara Ramsden award (Fellowship of Australian Writers) (recipient, 1973) Colin Roderick award (Foundation for Australian Literary Studies) (recipient, 1973) Medal of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1984) Officer of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1988)
Key Organisations *	Australian Association of Armed Neutrality (patron) Australian Council of Churches (committee member) Nuclear Disarmament Party (ACT) (founding member) Association for the Study of Australian Literature (life member, 1978-1991) Writers Against Nuclear Arms (founder, 1986-1991) Writers for an Ecologically Sustainable Population (member, 1989-1991)
Political Activism *	anti-nuclear activist (activist, 1980-1991)
Workplaces *	Presbyterian Girls' School (Warwick, Queensland) (teacher, ?-1961) Australian Broadcasting Corporation (journalist, 1941) University of Melbourne (English) (academic, 1961-1964) Australian National University (English) (academic, 1964-1972) Royal Military College (ACT) (academic, 1977-1980)

* Dates are approximate