1/6/2023 0 Comments Susannah flood partner![]() It is, I think, a tribute to that dark, protective presence in my early life.īut tragedy struck early in her life : the decision for the 2 year old Kattie to travel to Victoria with her mother for the birth of her brother Alan left N'gardo inconsolable, certain she had gone forever, and in his grief he died. Maybe N'gardo is responsible for the instinctive sympathy I've always had for people of the native races. She was particularly attached to her devoted Fijian carer, N'gardo. She attributes many of her later characteristics to the early Fijian experience - particularly her love for the natural world, and her instinctive sympathy.for people of the native races. In her autobiography she stresses her strong will, and her early ability to charm through the sheer force of her personality. "She is a child of the hurricane."īorn into a charmed circle of calm out of a wild and tempestuous night, Katharine Susannah Prichard seems to have been able to combine these two qualities - passionate criticism of social injustice and determination to expose and rail against unjust laws, with a sweet and gentle disposition. But in that bungalow on the hillside, natives gazed with awe at the baby the hurricane had left in its wake. In her autobiography, published in 1964, she describes her birth on 4 December 1883 in Fiji thus:ĭawn threw wan light on the devastation caused by the hurricane the township bashed and battered as though by a bombardment, the sea-wall washed away, the sea breaking through the main street, ships in the harbour blown ashore or onto the reef, coconut plantations beaten to the ground. Tom Prichard's marriage to Edith Isabel Fraser added to the complex interrelatedness of the family: for Katharine Susannah, growing up in the centre of a large and loving web of aunts, uncles, cousins and their relatives meant great security.īy her own definition, Katharine Susannah Prichard was a child of the hurricane. ![]() The Prichard and Fraser families had remained warm friends after their long and hazardous sea voyage to a new land : they became inextricably linked when the eldest of the Prichard sons married one of the elder Prichard girls, and a younger Fraser boy married one of the Prichard girls. Katharine Susannah recalls that her father used to say he had fallen in love with Edith when she was a schoolgirl, and made up his mind then that she was the girl he wanted to marry. Tom Prichard was the second youngest son of ten Prichard children, 4 years old on arrival in Australia Edith Isabel Fraser was the fourth of nine Fraser children but the first to be born in Australia. The Prichard and Fraser families had migrated to Australia from Britain on the sailing ship Eldorado in 1853, a ninety-four day sea voyage of astonishing hardship. ![]() ![]() In her autobiography, Child of the Hurricane (1964), she attributes her own strength of character and political idealism to the complex interaction of the immense securities and insecurities of her early childhood. Katharine Susannah Prichard was born on 4 December 1883, the first child of Edith Isabel Fraser, a talented painter, and Tom Prichard, a journalist with the Fiji Times. ![]()
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