served with distinction in the Great War, being mentioned six times in dispatches. He commanded the 4th Division A.M.F. in 1929–1931, and died on 27 June 1942. Legacy Foott Street in the Canberra suburb of Garran is named in Mary Hannay Foott's honour. Selected works Poetry collections Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems, Gordon & Gotch, Brisbane, 1885 Morna Lee and Other Poems, Gordon & Gotch, London and Brisbane, 2nd edition, 1890 Play Sweep: A comedy for children in three acts, Gordon & Gotch, Brisbane, 1891 Individual works "Where the Pelican Builds" (1881) References Bibliography Debra Adelaide (1988), Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide, London, Pandora External links Margaret Henry and Cecil Hadgraft, "Foott, Mary Hannay (1846–1918)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, pp. 194–195 Text of Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems. 1846 births 1918 deaths Australian women poets Australian women dramatists and playwrights People from Bundaberg Pseudonymous women writers 19th-century Australian dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Australian poets 19th-century Australian women writers 20th-century Australian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Australian poets 20th-century Australian women writers 19th-century pseudonymous writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers People from Mordialloc, Victoria Scottish emigrants to colonial Australia National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni