Katherine Glasson

  General Notes:

Stephen Crawshaw notes:
Katherine Glasson was born on the 8th July 1893, during the flood, at Kywanna, north-west of Goondiwindi. She was the daughter of William Glasson, originally from the Bathurst region of New South Wales, and Mary Treweeke of Umbercollie, Goondiwindi. Her father had a number of large properties, including Coomrith, where Kitty spent her childhood. She later attended school at Fort Street in Sydney, and then attended Sydney University between 1913 and 1916 where she studied medicine. [No evidence of graduation - SC] By 1916 her father owned Warkon Station, Yuleba, and Kitty came back to here where she married Ronnie Taylor of Russell Park, Surat, in November 1916. Whilst living at Warkon, and later at Murilla South, they raised three children, and through this time Kitty became a busy writer. She published a number of books, including "Bim", "Ginger for Pluck", and "Pick the Duffers". These were stories for children, based on her knowledge of station life. Her most successful book was "Wards of the Outer March", an historical novel of convict Australia. It was intended to be filmed by Charles Chauvel, but did not proceed due to Chauvel's death. From 1950, Kitty Taylor, always an independent person, travelled frequently, living in Paris and then in Switzerland with Russian friends. Since 1972 she had been retired in Brisbane and passed away on the 14th March 1998, aged 104 years.

Katherine married Ronald Beresford Taylor on 13 Nov 1916 in "Warkon", Yuleba, Queensland Australia. (Ronald Beresford Taylor was born in 1892 and died in 1957.)