• Special Achievements
• First native born actress to make a name on the stage overseas. First Australian to be invited to appear before Queen Victoria, multiple times.
• First Australian actor to have an international career.

Additional Information

• Author.
• 1859 - Her first book, Shifting Scenes in Theatrical Life, was published in London.
• 1860 - Novel Bitter-Sweet—So is the World was serialized in the Sydney Mail under the pseudonym Ariele.
• 1864 - Published The Mistress of Hawk's Crag and Twenty Straws.
• 1865 - Became editress of the weekly Fiction for Family Reading.
• 1866 - Published the Red Hand.
• 1867 - Published What is To Be Will Be.
• 1868 - Published Entrances and Exits.
• 1876 - Published For Her Natural Life:  A Tale of 1830.

Image - Eliza O'Flaherty

Description: Eliza O'Flaherty (1818-1882) née Winstanley, Australian writer and stage actress Date: 6 May 1931 Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/159789922 - Sydney Mail, National Library of Australia Author: Unknown

Wikimedia Commons: File:Eliza O'Flaherty.png

References

• Robinson, N. M. Australian Dictionary of Biography. “O'Flaherty, Eliza (1818–1882)”. accessed 11 December 2019.
• Wikipedia. “Eliza O'Flaherty”. accessed 11 December 2019.
• The Conversation. “Hidden women of history: Eliza Winstanley, colonial stage star and our first female Richard III”. accessed 11 December 2019.
• Author unknown.  (year unknown).  Book title unknown.  “WINSTANLEY, Eliza”.  Page 284.