Beatrice Grimshaw

(1870-1953)

Beatrice Grimshaw was born in Dunmurry, Co. Antrim in 1870. Though raised in Ireland, and educated in France, Grimshaw is primarily associated with Australia and the South Seas, which she wrote about in her fiction and travel journalism. In 1904 Grimshaw was commissioned by London’s Daily Graphic to report on the Pacific islands, around which she purportedly sailed her own cutter, never to return to Europe again. After living much of her life in New Guinea, Grimshaw retired to New South Wales, where she died in 1953.

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