Katharine Susannah Prichard

Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author and playwright (died 1969)

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Born: December 4, 1883
Died: October 2, 1969
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Birth year: 1883

About Katharine Susannah Prichard

Katharine Susannah Prichard (4 December 1883 – 2 October 1969) was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Her first novel, The Pioneers (1915), won the Hodder & Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize. After her return to Australia, the romance Windlestraws and her first novel of a mining community, Black Opal, were published. Her father, Tom Prichard, was editor of the Melbourne Sun newspaper.

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The world when Katharine Susannah Prichard was born

Katharine Susannah Prichard was born in 1883. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

Top headlineBrooklyn Bridge opens after 14 years of construction
Technology milestoneFirst standardized time zones adopted
World population~1.43B

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderChester A. Arthur
U.S. population52.8M

1883 versus 2026

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Measure	1883	2026
Population	52.8M	341 million

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