- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE6188
Stevenson, Jean Lloyd
- Stevenson, Jean L.
- Occupation Poet, Public servant, Stenographer, Typist
Summary
Jean Stevenson was a poet and friend of Dame Mary Gilmore. She received an honourable mention in an essay competition. ‘Mary Gilmore: Dreamer and Doer’, through the Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society in Melbourne, in 1939. She worked as a typist at the Australian Forestry School in Canberra, the Department of Defence in Melbourne and the Department of Air in Penrith, moving to Woodford in the Blue Mountains in 1955.