Life
Born in Rockhampton, Queensland, Hill attended All Hallows' School in Brisbane, and then Stott & Hoare's Business College, Brisbane. On completing her studies, she worked briefly in the public service, and then for Smith's Weekly, Sydney, first as the secretary to the literary editor, J. F. Archibald, and later as a journalist and subeditor.
She loved to travel, and travelled more actively after her husband's death in 1933. During the 1930s she travelled extensively around Australia, writing as she went. Hill then worked for the ABC from 1940 from 1944, on the A.B.C. Weekly and as a commissioner.
After resigning from the ABC, she resumed her travels, but published little from her work during this period. She was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fund fellowship in 1959. However, while this provided her with a small pension, her final years were characterised by financial and health problems. She died in Brisbane in 1972.
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