Description

Extended Data

DAAO URL

https://www.daao.org.au/bio/phoebe-healy

Birth Place

Paddington, NSW , Paddington, NSW ?

Biography

cartoonist, regularly drew for Aussie in 1930-31, along with Esther and Betty Paterson , Dorothy Ellsmore Paul and Doreen O’Neill . Healy specialised in working-class subjects and jokes, e.g. (good drawing of two men standing in a train with seated passengers outlined behind) “I’ve been travelling on this line for three years, and I’ve never given my seat to a lady.”/ “'Aven’t you got no manners?”/ “'Taint that; I’ve never 'ad a seat!” 15 January 1930; (two old working-class women taking tea) “Who broke yer winder, Mrs. 'Icks?”/ “Oh, me husbing did that last night. 'E come 'ome pretty full, y’know.”/ “Go on! 'An 'ow did 'e 'appen ter break it?”/ “'E ducked, dearie” 15 August 1930; (woman to man in bed) “Why don’t you get up an’ work, like me, you lazy loafer? “Ard work never killed no one!”/ “You’re making a mistake there, ole girl; I lost two of the best little wives I ever 'ad by overwork” 15 October 1930; (beach picnic with small boy) “Oh, Uncle!”/ “Well, my dear, what is it?”/ “Ain’t it funny, 'ow Aunty’s hair is all waves an’ yours is all beach!” 15 January 1931; “If you’ll let me marry your daughter, sir, I’ll take out a policy on my life large enough for her to be provided for.”/ “Yes, but suppose you don’t die!” 15 November 1931. Included in c.1930s list of Bulletin artists (ML Px*D557 pt 5, 10). There is some speculation that Healy is Phoebe Louise Healey (née Hodges), born Paddington, NSW, 1877 to parents John (or Joshua) and Mary A. Hodges and married George Healey, Sydney, 1903 and died Rockdale, NSW, 1945. Writers: Kerr, Joan Date written: 1996 Last updated: 2007

Born

b. c.1877

Summary

Early 20th century Sydney [?] cartoonist. She specialised in working-class subjects and jokes and contributed regularly to "Aussie" in 1930-31.

Gender

Female

Died

c.1945

Age at death

68