The Boy in the Bush, she met with Edward Garnett to discuss publishing Black Swans. His critique of the work as "so damn, damn bad" gave rise to Skinner's tears and cries, but he finished by declaring that it was also so "damn, damn good" that he intended to publish it. Skinner's autobiography, The Fifth Sparrow, was edited by Mary Durack and Marjorie Rees while Skinner's health was failing and published posthumously in 1972. Publications Midwifery Made Easy. (Perth: J. W. Barnard, 1912, and London: Baillière,Tindall & Cox, 1913). Letters of a V.A.D. Published under the nom de plume R. E. Leake. London: Andrew Melrose, 1918. The Boy in the Bush. With D. H. Lawrence. London: Martin Secker, 1924. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1924. Black Swans. London: Jonathan Cape, 1925. Men Are We. Aboriginal Stories. Perth: People's Publishing Co., 1927. Tucker Sees India. London: Secker and Warburg, 1937. W.X. - Corporal Smith. Perth: R. S. Sampson, 1941. When Skies are Blue. Introduction by J. K. Ewers. Perth: Imperial Printing Co, 1946. The Witch of Welleway. In The Bulletin, Sydney, 22 February 1956. Legacy Skinner enjoyed moderate success during her lifetime, particularly for the association with D. H. Lawrence, but did not share the fame of contemporaries such as Katherine Susannah Prichard and Mary Durack. Her life story was adapted to a play, Sparrow, first performed in 2018. Skinner Street in the Canberra suburb Cook was named in her honour. Further reading Bartlett, Norman (1984) Mollie Skinner and The Boy in the Bush. Quadrant, July/Aug. 1984, pp. 73–75. Pell, Olive, (1988). Mollie Skinner. pp. 59–64 of - Brian Dibble, Don Grant, Glen Phillips (eds) Celebrations : a bicentennial anthology of fifty years of Western Australian poetry and prose Nedlands, W.A : University of Western Australia Press. 0855642939 (pbk.) Rees, Marjorie (1964) Mollie Skinner and D.H. Lawrence Westerly, March 1964. References 1876 births 1955 deaths Australian memoirists 20th-century Australian women writers Australian women of World War I Australian nurses Australian women memoirists Writers from Perth, Western Australia Australian women nurses 20th-century Australian non-fiction writers Australian women non-fiction writers 19th-century Australian women