Doris Egerton Jones

Although she did not complete her studies, she was instrumental in lobbying for a law change in 1911 allowing women to practise.

In 1918 she travelled to London where she wrote the play Uncle Tibbett's Twins, which had Australian and cross-dressing themes.

[3] The Year Between, classed as romantic fiction, was her last novel and dealt with the mistreatment of Aboriginal people and the ANZAC landing in Gallipoli.

[1] Her detective drama, The Flaw, written with the English actress Emélie Polini, was a melodrama.

[1][2][4] Egerton Jones married her husband Reginald Callaghan in 1918 in London; they later changed their name to Callahan.