Ellen Davitt b. c.March 1812

Also known as Ellen Heseltine
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, teacher and novelist who ruffled a few feathers with her overbearing personality. She taught drawing at various schools but her own art was not much admired.

Citations

  • (12 December 1857), 'Examiner and Melbourne Weekly News’.

  • (May 1865), 'Australian Journal’.

  • (27 November 1867), 'Argus’.

  • (1934), 'History of Kyneton’, Kyneton, Victoria, vol.1, reprint 1981.

  • Burchell, L. (1980), 'Victorian Schools: A Study in Colonial Government Architecture 1837-1900’, Melbourne.

  • Davitt, E. (1993), 'Force and Fraud: A Tale of the Bush, (ed.) Lucy Sussex’, Canberra: Mulini Press.

  • Information sourced from Bruce, Candice.

  • Allan, J. Alex (1934), 'The Old Model School: its history and romance 1852-1904’, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

  • Information sourced from McDonald, P.R.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions