(1890s)

Chatswood, Neutral Bay, Mosman

(1870 - 1935). b. Hobart. “Louise Mack and Jack Creed were married … at the Mack’s family home at Neutral Bay…The couple drove off in a cab to their pretty cottage at Chatswood.” (Yarwood) **//[1]//** She died at Mosman. Louise was the sister of Florence Mack who was the mother of novelist Nancy Phalen. After journeying to London in 1901 “Mack returned to Sydney and the literary scene of the 1890s where she maintained friendships with writers such as Henry Lawson, Ethel Turner, J.F. Archibald, Christopher Brennan, and George Lambert.**//[2]//** (Dargo)

They steamed out of the quay, past the grey stones of Fort Denison, turned around Bradley’s Head, and went onto Middle Harbour…On, on past many famous picnic grounds, past Fig Tree, and Pearl Bay, Quaker’s Hat, right up to the Suspension Bridge.

They landed near there, and had al fresco high tea in the moonlight.



Works By Louise Mack
The world is round (1896); Dreams in flower (1901); Girls together (1903); Children of the sun (1904); Teens (1910)


**//[1]//** Yarwood (1994) p. 115
**//[2]//** dargo.vicnet.net.au/ozlit/writers , May, 2001.