Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Kate Baker" in English language version.
I was born in Ireland, God bless her – at Cappoquin, County Waterford. The very sound of the name 'Ireland' gives me a sort of nostalgia of love and longing. I think the little village in which my childhood was passed could easily have been the origin of The Deserted Village. There, folk lived in amity and love. My mother (my father died when I was three months old), I remember, was held in a kind of worship by the simple country people.
Miss Baker's father died when she was only three months old, and she came from Ireland with her mother in 1870 to her sister, the wife of Edward Crane, then mayor of Williamstown.
Of this book my old friend, Robert (Bob) S. Ross, who was then the editor, wrote: "Furphy presented the MSS to the miners of the Barrier, through their paper, in tribute to his admiration of the stalwart western character and spirit." Later, recovered from old files of Barrier Truth by Ross and Kate Baker, Rigby's Romance was published in volume form.
At the monthly meeting of the Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society, Miss Kate Baker was presented by the president (Mrs. G. A. Hunter) with a life membership certificate in recognition of her services to Australian literature and to the Lawson Society.
Miss Kate Baker has been given an O.B.E. decoration by the King for her work in connection with Australian literature.
Miss Kate Baker left yesterday on a visit to Miss Miles Franklin in Sydney
Miss Kate Baker has presented to the Public Library a collection of original writings and photographs of the Australian author Joseph Furphy, whose book "Such Is Life" won world-wide recognition. The Chief Librarian (Mr. McCallum) received the collection at a function in the Gallery.
Kate Baker was a member of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties from its foundation 17½ years ago, and was appointed a vice-president of that organisation a fortnight before her death. She wrote to me from the Camberwell Hospital, in which she died, to say that she did not expect to leave that place, but would be with us in spirit to the end.
