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About Dorothy Cottrell
Ida Dorothy Ottley Cottrell was an Australian writer. Born in Picton, she contracted infantile paralysis as a child and spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair. Cottrell married Walter Mackenzie Cottrell on 23 May 1922. Her first novel, The Singing Gold, was published in 1928. She wrote a story Wilderness Orphan (1936) which was the basis for the feature film Orphan of the Wilderness (1936). She lived for a time in the US and also worked as an artist and cartoonist.
Everything about Dorothy Cottrell →- Occupation
- novelist, journalist
- Born
- July 16, 1902
- Died
- June 29, 1957