Jane Fletcher (Australian writer)

Jane Ada Fletcher (1870–1956) was a Tasmanian poet and author, publishing works on ornithology, history, anthropology, and fiction.

Jane was the daughter of Sarah, née Cooper, and Price Fletcher, a Queensland naturalist and agriculturalist, and whose respective interests in botany and ornithology were an early influence.

She was born at Stonefield station, near Penshurst, Victoria, 18 September 1870, later moving to Queensland and returning to the state before settling in Tasmania, initially with an aunt.

[1][2] Fletcher was a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union at their foundation in 1901, and published in their journal Emu.

[1] Fletcher wrote on the indigenous peoples of Australia, and the first to fictionalise their culture for young European readers.