Brownie Downing (5 works by) (birth name: Viola Edythe Downing )
Born: Established: 9 May 1924 Manly Manly - Allambie - Curl Curl area Sydney Northeastern Suburbs Sydney New South Wales ; Died: Ceased: 16 May 1995
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Gender: Female
Departed from Australia: 1958

BiographyHistory

Brownie Downing studied at the Julian Ashton School. After World War II she developed prints and products inspired by Aboriginal motifs. She left Australia in 1958 and published her first children's book, written with her husband, John Mansfield (q.v.), in 1960.

(Source: Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature,1993)