Mary Daly (Australian writer)

Dame Mary Dora Daly, DBE CBE OBE (née MacMahon; 24 August 1896 – 11 June 1983) was an Australian writer, humanitarian and charity worker.

Her parents were Thomas Patrick MacMahon, a solicitor, and his wife Mary Ellen (née O'Donnell).

She was educated at Loreto convent schools in Normanhurst, New South Wales and Ballarat, Victoria.

[2] With the outbreak of World War II, Daly was the only woman on the executive of the Catholic Welfare Organisation, founded in Melbourne in 1939 by Archbishop Mannix.

[2] She was also affiliated with: Dame Mary Daly died at Fitzroy, Victoria, aged 86, on 11 June 1983.