ĭuring the First World War, Gunn became active in welfare work for Australian servicemen overseas. By 1990, over a million copies of the book had been sold. In a 1931 poll by The Herald (Melbourne) its author was voted the third most popular Australian novelist after Marcus Clarke and Rolf Boldrewood. We of the Never Never sold more than 300,000 copies over thirty years, and was translated into German in the 1920s. Gunn's second book, We of the Never Never (1908), was styled as a novel but was actually a recounting of her time in the Northern Territory with only the names of people changed to obscure their identities. The Little Black Princess: a True Tale of life in the Never-Never Land, published in 1905 and revised in 1909, chronicled the childhood of an Indigenous Australian protagonist named Bett-Bett. In Melbourne, after being encouraged by friends, she began writing the books for which she would become famous. She never returned to the Northern Territory. After a year at the Elsey, Jeannie Gunn's husband died in March 1903 from complications of malaria and she returned to live in Melbourne. Shortly after, in early 1902, they travelled to Darwin (then called Palmerston) and then to Elsey, an outlying cattle station on the Roper River, near the current town of Mataranka. On New Year's Eve 1901, she married the explorer, pastoralist and journalist Aeneas James Gunn, in the Presbyterian Church. Matriculating through Melbourne University after being educated at home, she ran a school with her sisters between 18, after which she worked as a visiting teacher. Taylor was a Baptist minister who went into business and later worked on the Melbourne Argus. Jeannie Taylor was born in Carlton, Melbourne, the last of five children of Thomas Johnstone Taylor. Jeannie Gunn OBE (pen name, Mrs Aeneas Gunn) (5 June 1870 – 9 June 1961) was an Australian novelist, teacher and Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL) volunteer.
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