Lilian Wooster Greaves
# Lilian Wooster Greaves

Lilian Wooster Greaves (21 December 1869 – 28 January 1956) was a Western Australian botanist and poet.

She was born in Ballarat, Victoria where her father was lecturer of botany at the Federation University Australia. She married John William Greaves in 1893 in Ballarat, and their children Mabel and Grace were born in Victoria. The family arrived in Western Australia on RMS Orizaba in 1904.

Her family moved to Western Australia in 1904, and at different stages lived in Wongan Hills, Mundaring, Cottesloe, and Leederville during the first world war. The last place of residence was in Como.

She was a member of the Women Writers Club and representative of the Institute of British Poetry in Western Australia.

Her poetry was regularly published in local newspapers and magazines.

During the First World War she wrote patriotic verses and songs.

Some post war poetry was published in commemoration of Anzac Day.

Her papers are in the Battye Library private archives.

## Books of poetry

* Greaves, Lilian Wooster (1903), Poems by Lilian (an Australian poetess) (1st ed.), G. Baker Walker, retrieved 11 October 2012
* Greaves, Lilian Wooster (1906), The two doves and other poems, Upham & Williams, retrieved 11 October 2012
* Greaves, Lilian Wooster (1910), Roses in rain : and other poems, The Swan Express, retrieved 11 October 2012 - reprinted in 1914
* Greaves, Lilian Wooster (1927). Wongan Way . Perth, Western Australia: Imperial Printing Company – via Wikisource. — also in an illustrated edition, combined with a booklet about wildflowers - Greaves, Lilian Wooster (1927), Wongan way, Imperial Printing, retrieved 11 October 2012 (separate edition as:Greaves, Lilian Wooster (1927), West Australian wild flowers, Imperial Printing, retrieved 11 October 2012

## Poems in newspapers

    1920 - Where love dwells.
    1926 - England.
