59:(1817â1909) and Martha Hardy, nÊe Price (1821â1904), and daughter of Herbert Mansell Hardy (1856â1927) and Miriam Isabella Hardy, nÊe Cunningham (1855â1950). Mabel and her brother Frederick Mansell Hardy (died 1965) were twins, born prematurely, yet each was to have a long and fulfilling life. The family fortune, once considerable, was quite dissipated, and Mabel was brought up in respectable middle-class Malvern. She was educated at a small school run by the Misses Hack, who lived opposite. She then studied in State schools in
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79:. She won the Tinline Scholarship in History and the John Howard Clark scholarship in English Literature, and graduated BA in 1914. From 1916 to 1918 she taught at St Peter's College Girls' School in North Adelaide. Following her interest in history, from 1919 to 1921 she worked as a researcher for George Pitt at the South Australian Archives. She next taught at the
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A Short History of Stawell School: The forgotten school on Mount Lofty
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