Mary Eliza Fullerton

Fullerton was born on 14 May 1868 in Glenmaggie, Victoria. She attended her local state school and was educated by her mother. After leaving school she stayed on her parents' property, until she moved to Melbourne in her early twenties. == Archive ==

Letters from Fullerton to family members and correspondence between Fullerton and Miles Franklin are included in the Papers of Alan Wilson and the Wilson Family, that are held in the State Library of Victoria manuscript collection. ==Literary career==

She sometimes wrote under the pen name Alpenstock, producing poetry, short fiction, and essays for periodicals. She wrote three novels between 1921 and 1925 under her own name, but fearing prejudice against her as a woman without a university education, publication of her two last works in verse, Moles do so little with their privacy and The wonder and the apple, were published under the pseudonym E. Their publication was arranged by her friend Miles Franklin. Her identity as their author was revealed after her death. ==Bibliography==