Mona Brand (22 October 1915 - 1 August 2007) was an Australian playwright and poet, born in Sydney. Her father, Alexander Brand, was in the early 1930's, second engineer on ship SS Cape Leeuwin servicing lighthouses and lightships between Brisbane and Darwin. In one letter to her, he included an original poem The Carpentaria Lightship which she unsuccessfully attempted to have published in The Bulletin.

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  • Mona Brand (22 October 1915 - 1 August 2007) was an Australian playwright and poet, born in Sydney. Her father, Alexander Brand, was in the early 1930's, second engineer on ship SS Cape Leeuwin servicing lighthouses and lightships between Brisbane and Darwin. In one letter to her, he included an original poem The Carpentaria Lightship which she unsuccessfully attempted to have published in The Bulletin. In 1947 she joined the Communist Party of Australia, sharing feminist, pacifist and humanitarian views with her friends Dymphna Cusack, Florence James and Miles Franklin. She left the CPA in 1970. She was a social worker during WWII, then a research officer for the Department of Labour and National Service 1945-48. She worked in London 1948-54, originally as a typist for the BBC, then in Hanoi 1956-57 as an English teacher, subsequently returning to Australia. In 1955 she married Len Fox, a journalist for the Communist Party, also a poet and author. They were still together when he died in 2004. She was a prominent member of the NSW Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship.
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  • Mona Brand (22 October 1915 - 1 August 2007) was an Australian playwright and poet, born in Sydney. Her father, Alexander Brand, was in the early 1930's, second engineer on ship SS Cape Leeuwin servicing lighthouses and lightships between Brisbane and Darwin. In one letter to her, he included an original poem The Carpentaria Lightship which she unsuccessfully attempted to have published in The Bulletin.
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  • Mona Brand
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