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LifeBorn Meta Frances Hurley in Toowoomba, Queensland. Meta Truscott attended St Joseph's Convent School, Nundah where she later completed a business course. For ten years, she worked in the office of a furniture firm and then five years in an accountant's office. Married in 1947, she had three children. In 1994, the Brisbane City Council named Meta Truscott Lane in Ashgrove to honour her contribution to Ashgrove local history. The Ashgrove Historical Society appointed her co-patron with Manfred Cross. DiariesOn 1 January 1934, aged sixteen and a half, Truscott née Hurley began her first diary; a Christmas gift from her maternal uncle, Christopher Dunne, Station Master at Toowoomba railway station. During September that year, her saddest entry recorded the sudden death of her father aged 63 in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane. On completing her first year, she was "hooked" and wrote a daily diary until her death. Notable entries include her witness account of a suicide. On Monday afternoon, 20 April 1936, while visiting The Gap, Sydney with her uncle, Christopher Dunne, they by chance shared a bench with a well-dressed, middle-aged man. He was later identified as William Albert Swivell. The three watched a ship sail through the Sydney Heads. Dunne asked Swivell if he knew the name of the ship. He answered, "The Nieuw Holland." Soon after, Swivell walked away; he climbed to the top of the cliff and jumped to his death.[8][9][10] Other significant entries describe the beginning and the end of World War II. The diaries record the stillness, the state of shock when war was declared and how Brisbane city went wild with joy the day the war ended. Her busiest year was 1988. Alongside writing her regular diary, she wrote two extra diaries: one for the Australian Bicentenary now lodged in the Ashgrove library and another for her two older grandchildren. She wrote two further diaries, one for her two younger grandchildren (1998) and one for her daughter (2003). Published works
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References1. ^{{cite news|last=Joliffe|first=C|title=50 years a person diary – now a slice of history.|newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly|date=August 1984|page=124}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Truscott, Meta}}2. ^{{cite news|title=One day at a time|newspaper=Roundabout|date=May–June 1984|page=7}} 3. ^{{cite news|last=Wighton|first=S|title=Opinion: Lines on a year of writing eruditely.|url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/opinion-lines-on-a-year-of-writing-eruditely/story-fnihsr9v-1226783526361|accessdate=22 January 2014|newspaper=The Courier Mail|date=12 December 2013}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Truscott|first=Meta|title=A portrait of Ashgrove. In M. Farrelly, "Canvass of dreams: A history of Marist College Ashgrove, to 1990"|year=1990|publisher=Watson Ferguson & Company|location=Brisbane|pages=249–258}} 5. ^Bligh, A (22 February 2012). Private letter of Anna Bligh, Premier of Queensland, to Meta Truscott acknowledging her commitment to recording Queensland History. Brisbane, Queensland. 6. ^{{cite web|last=Fallon|first=K.M.|title=Glenlyon House|url=http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/assi/2014/01/21/glenlyon-house/|work=State Library of Queensland|accessdate=24 January 2014}} 7. ^Call number UQFL 385 Boxes 1–97 8. ^{{cite news|title=Man's leap over the Gap|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2412412|accessdate=26 January 2014|newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=21 April 1936}} 9. ^{{cite web|title=Fell 280 feet into the sea|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112696447|work=The Aulbury Banner and Wadonga Express|accessdate=26 January 2014|page=33}} 10. ^{{cite news|title=Shipping|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17324254|accessdate=26 January 2014|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=20 April 1936|page=16}} 11. ^{{cite book|last=Farrelly|first=Mark|title=Canvas of dreams: A history of Marist College Ashgrove, to 1990|year=1990|publisher=Watson Ferguson & Company|location=Brisbane}} 12. ^{{cite book|last=Fitzpatrick|first=Patrick|title=Oceans of consolation: personal accounts of Irish migration to Australia|year=1994|publisher=Cornell University Press|location=New York}} 13. ^Fitzpatrick, P., & Polirtelir, C. (Composers). (1995). Oceans of consolation: readings from Irish-Australian letters. [Audiobook on cassette]. Dublin, Ireland: C. Polirtelir. 13 : 1917 births|Writers from Queensland|Australian diarists|Australian memoirists|Australian autobiographers|Australian historians|Women diarists|Australian women historians|Women memoirists|Women autobiographers|People from Toowoomba|Writers from Brisbane|2014 deaths |
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