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Penton, Olga, 1896-1972
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- Moss, Olga Grace Saville, 1896-1972
- Moss, Olga Grace, 1896-1972
- Moss, Olga Grace Saville, 1896-1972
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1896-1972
History
Olga Grace Moss who was born in or near Tenterfield in 1896. She was a boarder and then a teacher at Rockhampton Girls' Grammar School for several years. She also worked at the New England Girls'School in Armidale in 1916. After moving to Brisbane she was a Latin and English teacher at Brisbane Girls' Grammar School. On 6 January 1924 she married the journalist Brian Penton. The Pentons moved to Sydney in late 1925 where Brian Penton commenced work for the Sydney Morning Herald. He was that paper's correspondent in Canberra in 1927/28. From 1928 to 1933 the Pentons lived in London, where they were close to Jack and Norman Lindsay and P R (Inky) Stephenson. Olga Penton taught at Pitman's Business College. Her A Rapid Latin Course was published by Pitman in 1933 and she received substantial royalties from the sale of the book. Her husband's time in London as the sub-editor at the Daily Express and editor of the soon-to-be defunct Fanfrolico Press was less financially rewarding. In 1933 the Pentons moved to Sydney where Brian Penton began working for the Telegraph. After his death in 1951, Olga Penton worked at the Shakespeare Head Press and the Golden Press, publisher of the Little Golden Books. Olga Penton wrote a number of unpublished novels. She died in Sydney in 1972.
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised, JH, 5-May-2020
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Sources
Buckridge, Patrick. A Bohemian Wife: The Life and Death of Olga Penton [online]. Queensland Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2008: 51-65, accessed online, 5-May-2020
Maintenance notes
Buckridge gives Penton's birth details as 'Maryland in Northern New South Wales in 1897'. The only Maryland in NSW is near Newcastle. BDM New South Wales records the birth of a Olga G Moss in Tenterfield in 1896 (certificate number 7942/1896) to George S and Caroline E Moss.
The Electoral roll for Capricornia in 1919 records an Olga Grace Saville Moss. It is unclear where the name 'Saville' stems from.