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Moresby, Isabelle (‘Millie’)

(1886–1956)> WRITER, VIOLINIST

Moresby, Isabelle (‘Millie’) née HuntMoresby Hunt, (‘Millie’) Isabelle(‘Millie’) Isabelle Moresby Hunt (* Williamstown, Melbourne, 1886; † Sorrento, Vic., 1956), writer, violinist. Born into a musical family and learning violin and viola at home, she played with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra from its inception under Alberto Zelman Jr. She wrote children's stories for the Argus and a work on Australia's war effort in New Guinea, New Guinea: The Sentinel (1943), but is best remembered for her…

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