Harriet Elizabeth Whiteaway [37909]

   Another name for Harriet was Betty Roland.

   FamilySearch ID: LXWM-S4F.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Wikipedia: Betty Roland. ¹ Betty Roland
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ntblBetty Rolandntbl Born 22 July 1903 Victoriantbl Died 12 February 1996 New South Walesntbl Occupation Writer, dramatist, radio playsntbl Nationality Australianntbl Period 20th centuryntbl Genres Drama, Children's fictionBetty Roland (22 July 1903 '96 12 February 1996) was an Australian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_people> writer of plays, screenplays, novels, children's books and comics.
Guido Baracchi and the Communist Party
Roland met the wealthy Marxist intellectual Guido Baracchi <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guido_Baracchi&action=edit&redlink=1>, one of the founders of the Australian Communist Party <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Communist_Party>, in the late 1920s. Having left her husband, she booked a passage to the UK in 1933 and discovered Baracchi, also recenty separated, was a passenger on the same voyage. They began a relationship, and travelled together to the USSR <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR>, where Baracchi was to deliver documents to the Kremlin.[3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-CL-3> While there, Roland worked on the Moscow Daily News <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow_Daily_News&action=edit&redlink=1>, shared a room with Katharine Susannah Prichard <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Susannah_Prichard>, and smuggled literature into Nazi Germany. The first volume of her autobiography, Caviar For Breakfast (1979), was based on her diaries from this period. On their return to Australia, they moved to Sydney, building a house in Castlecrag <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlecrag>.[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-BA-1>[8] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-WL-8> Their daughter, Gilda, was born in 1937.[3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-CL-3> In the late 1930s she wrote short, left-wing, agitprop plays, which she regarded as akin to political cartoons, for the New Theatre League <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Theatre_League&action=edit&redlink=1> in Sydney. The scripts were regularly published in Communist Review, a magazine published by the Communist Party of Australia and edited by Baracchi.[9] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-9>
She separated from Baracchi in 1942, and for the rest of the 1940s supported herself and her daughter by writing radio plays, including The First Gentleman, Daddy Was Asleep, The White Cockade, A Woman Scorned, The Drums of Manalao and In His Steps.[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-BA-1>[8] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-WL-8> She also wrote a comic strip, The Conways, for the Sydney Morning Herald <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Morning_Herald>.[10] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-10> From 1948 to 1950 she lived in the Montsalvat <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montsalvat> artists' colony at Eltham, Victoria <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltham,_Victoria>.[3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-CL-3> In 1951 she legally changed her name to Betty Roland, and the following year moved to London with Gilda, where she wrote for television and women's magazines, as well as children's books and comic strips for Girl <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_%28comic%29> and Swift <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_%28comic%29>.[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-BA-1>[8] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-WL-8>
She returned to Australia in the early 1960s, continuing to write radio plays and children's books, and was a founding member of the Australian Society of Authors <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Society_of_Authors> in 1963, serving on its management committee and becoming an honorary life member in 1993.[8] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-WL-8> She moved back into Montsalvat from 1973 to 1979, and wrote her second volume of autobiography, The Eye of the Beholder, about her time there.[3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-CL-3> She published two more volumes of autobiography, An Improbable Life (1989) and The Devious Being (1990). She died in Sydney in 1996.[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Roland#cite_note-BA-1>

• Newspaper: PLAYWRIGHT, 1938 Sep 22, Sydney District, New South Wales, Australia. ² PLAYWRIGHT. (1938, September 22). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 -1954), p. 24. Retrieved January 10, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17521013>


PLAYWRIGHT.
MRS GUIDO BARACCHI of Castle-crag Sydney who as Betty Roland is well known us playwright for both stage and radio. "The touch of Silk" has been successfully performed throughout Australia and Mrs. Barrachi's new play "Are You Ready Comrades" will be performed in Perth, W.A., on October 8, the final night of the Western Australian Drama Festival, The prize in the competition is £50 royalty for one performance of a selected manuscript. Mrs Baracchi said thal her latest play should have been written in time for the 150th Anniversary competition, but her 11-months-old daughter, Gilda Fanceacs, interferes with Her business of writing; the playwright is at present concentra-ting on a novel, "To-morrow's Bread."

Harriet married Guido Carlo Luige Baracchi [26719] [LXWM-96B] [MRIN: 12109], son of Pietro Baracchi [26721] [LXWM-9RV] and Unknown, on 1923 Mar 29 in London, England. (Guido Carlo Luige Baracchi [26719] [LXWM-96B] was born in 1887 ³ and died on 1975 Dec 13 in New South Wales, Australia ³.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Newspaper: Family Notices, 1923 Jul 18, Melbourne, , Victoria, Australia. ⁴ Family Notices. (1923, July 18). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 -1956), p. 1. Retrieved January 10, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2018084>

BARACCHI'97ZANDER. '97 On the 29th March, 1923, at London, Guido Carlo Luigi Baracchi, of Melbourne, to Harriet Elizabeth Zander (nee Whiteaway), of Melbourne, now of England.

Harriet next married John Keith Zander [37910] [MRIN: 12110].