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Aborigine in White Australian Literature
Reflections on Aborigines in the literature before European invasion/settlement in 1788 were mostly unfavourable. William Dampier saw them as ‘the miserablest People in the World’; Captain James Cook ...
Aileen Palmer
(1915–88),daughter of Vance and Nettie Palmer and sister of Helen Palmer, was born in London and educated at the University of Melbourne. She served with the British medical unit ...
Australia
The country's first conventional theatre was opened in 1796 by an ex-convict, Robert Sideaway – and closed two years later after a spate of robberies on the unattended homes of ...
Daybreak
A novel by Vance Palmer, was published in 1932. Set in a small Victorian town in the 1920s, its action is compressed into twelve hours. The central figure, a fruit ...
Golconda trilogy
Is a series of novels by Vance Palmer which centres on the history of Macy Donovan, who has affinities with the politician E. G. Theodore and his rise from small ...
Helen Palmer
(1917–79),daughter of Vance and Nettie Palmer and sister of Aileen Palmer, graduated from the University of Melbourne and was a high-school teacher and writer. During the Second World War ...
Legend of the Nineties
An influential work of cultural criticism by Vance Palmer, was published in 1954. It attempts to take dispassionate stock of the Nineties, a decade that became invested with mythic significance ...
National Portraits
A collection of twenty-five brief biographical studies of significant figures in Australian history by Vance Palmer, was first published in 1940. Palmer chose his figures either ‘because of their ...
Nettie Palmer
(1885–1964),Australian literary journalist, born in Victoria, educated at the University of Melbourne. After travels in Europe she and her husband Vance Palmer devoted themselves to nurturing ...
Palmer, Vance (1885–1959) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)
(1885–1959)
was born at Bundaberg, Queensland, the youngest in a family of eight. His father was a schoolmaster
Palmer, Vance (28 Aug. 1885) Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
(b. Bundaberg, Australia, 28 Aug. 1885; d. Melbourne, 15 July 1958)
Playwright, novelist and essayist
Palmer, Vance Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
(1885–1959),
Australian writer and critic, born in Queensland. He travelled widely and for some years he lived in London, where he came under the influence of A. R. ...
Passage
A novel by Vance Palmer, was published in 1930 and won first prize in the Bulletin's 1929 novel competition and the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society. Set in ...
Pioneer Players
In 1922 a group of friends and mostly amateur actors centred on the playwright Louis Esson formed a company called the Pioneer Players to present plays written by and for ...
Such is Life
Are supposedly the last words spoken by Ned Kelly on the scaffold; the words also form the title of Joseph Furphy's famous novel, although it is not known whether Furphy knew of the connection ...
