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Vance Palmer

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(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. Orage and ...

Palmer, Vance

Palmer, Vance (1885–1959)   Quick reference

Kenneth Morgan

Dictionary Plus Literature

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Current Version:
2016
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Literature
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..., Vance ( 1885–1959 ) An Australian novelist , dramatist , essayist , and critic , who was married to the writer Nettie Palmer. He published some notable novels including The Man Hamilton ( 1928 ), Men are Human ( 1930 ), and The Swayne Family ( 1934 ). He is also known for his study The Legend of the Nineties ( 1954 ), a critical study of the Australian nationalist tradition in literature. He made regular radio broadcasts on books and writing. Kenneth...

Palmer, Vance

Palmer, Vance (28 Aug. 1885)   Reference library

The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre

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2010
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Performing arts, Theatre
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154 words

..., Vance (b. Bundaberg, Australia , 28 Aug. 1885 ; d. Melbourne , 15 July 1958 ) Playwright , novelist and essayist . His most successful dramatization of the ‘Australia of the Spirit’ comes in the robust, democratic, frugal, unsentimental, communal and masculine The Black Horse ( 1923 ). Here the outback combines with psychological tension in one simple action, as an embittered couple struggle for emotional control of their son. In The Prisoner ( 1919 ), Telling Mrs Baker ( 1922 ), Travellers ( 1924 ) and Prisoner's Country ( 1960 ) Palmer...

Palmer, Vance

Palmer, Vance   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature, Literary studies (20th century onwards)
Length:
187 words

..., Vance ( Vance Edward Vivian Palmer ) ( 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. Orage and married Nettie Palmer in 1914 ; he finally settled in Melbourne. As well as collections of verse and several plays he wrote fifteen novels, including the trilogy Golconda ( 1948 ), Seedtime ( 1957 ), and The Big Fellow ( 1959 ), set in Queensland, and several volumes of short stories, notably Let Birds Fly ( 1955 ) and The...

Palmer, Vance

Palmer, Vance (1885–1959)   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
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1,406 words

...appreciation. His preoccupations and achievements are explored in Harry Heseltine 's Vance Palmer ( 1970 ), Vivian Smith 's Vance Palmer ( 1971 ) and Vance and Nettie Palmer ( 1975 ) and David Walker 's Dream and Disillusion ( 1976 ). The pervading theme of all Palmer's work is his firm belief in an ‘Australia of the spirit’ and in literature as its influential and lasting expression. For Palmer, Australian literature was, or should be, an integral part of the fabric of national life, an expression of its inner spirit and values, its distinctive...

Vance Palmer

Vance Palmer  

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(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. Orage and ...
44 The History of the Book in Australia

44 The History of the Book in Australia   Reference library

Ian Morrison

The Oxford Companion to the Book

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2010
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...huge American sales brought him wealth and (at least *pseudonymously ) fame. The detective novelist Arthur Upfield and the *romance writer Lucy Walker were hailed overseas but disdained in Australia—Upfield sought his revenge by casting one of his detractors, the novelist Vance Palmer, as the murder victim in An Author Bites the Dust ( 1948 ). It was only with Peter Corris’s Chandleresque Cliff Hardy in the 1980s that crime writing acquired local critical respectability. Penguin established a Melbourne office in 1946 and immediately became a major...

Aileen Palmer

Aileen Palmer  

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(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 ...
Helen Palmer

Helen Palmer  

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(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 ...
National Portraits

National Portraits  

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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

Nettie Palmer  

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(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 ...
Legend of the Nineties

Legend of the Nineties  

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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 ...
Golconda trilogy

Golconda trilogy  

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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 ...
Passage

Passage  

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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 ...
Daybreak

Daybreak  

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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 ...
Emily Bulcock

Emily Bulcock  

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(1877–1969),born Tinana near Maryborough, Queensland, was an older sister of the novelist Vance Palmer. A schoolteacher and later a regular writer for Brisbane and southern newspapers, she was a ...
Pioneer Players

Pioneer Players  

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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 ...
Dream and Disillusion: A Search for Australian Cultural Identity

Dream and Disillusion: A Search for Australian Cultural Identity  

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(1976)by David Walker examines the lives and times of Vance Palmer, Louis Esson, ‘Furnley Maurice’ and Frederick Sinclaire, and their efforts to establish both a distinctively Australian culture and ...
Such is Life

Such is Life  

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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 ...
Australia

Australia  

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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 ...
Aborigine in White Australian Literature

Aborigine in White Australian Literature  

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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 ...

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