Betty Roland

Betty Roland was born on 22 July 1903 at Kaniva, in Victoria, as Mary Isabel Maclean. She left school for journalism in Melbourne, at Table Talk and the Sun News-Pictorial. In 1933 she left for London with Guido Baracchi, then lived in the Soviet Union, where she wrote for the Moscow Daily News. Back in Australia, she wrote for radio, then for television, published children's books and four volumes of memoirs, and took the name Roland, derived from her father's. She died in Sydney on 12 February 1996.

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• TheatreThe Touch of SilkBetty Roland · 1928Literature