Home › Authors › Dorothea Mackellar Dorothea Mackellar b. 1885 – d. 1968 · 6 books Biography A poetess, and third generation Australian who loved Australia and the Australian countryside. She is best remembered for her poem, "My Country", with the immortal line, *"I love a sunburnt country"*. Books by Dorothea Mackellar My Country Dorothea Mackellar 2008 I love a sunburnt country I love a sunburnt country 1990 I Love a Sunburnt Country, Dia I Love a Sunburnt Country, Diaries of Dorothea Mackellar 1990 My Country and Other Poems My Country and Other Poems 1988 The poems of Dorothea Mackellar 1971 The little blue devil 1912