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Vance Palmer Vance Palmer i(A18246 works by) (a.k.a. Edward Vivian Palmer; E. Vance Palmer; Edward Palmer; V. Palmer; Vance P.; Edward Vance Palmer; Palmer; E. Palmer; V. P.; Edward V. Palmer)
Also writes as: Rann Daly
Born: Established: 28 Aug 1885 Bundaberg, Bundaberg area, Maryborough - Rockhampton area, Queensland, ; Died: Ceased: 15 Jul 1959 Kew, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Male
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1 4 y separately published work icon Loving Words : Letters of Nettie and Vance Palmer, 1909 - 1914 Nettie Palmer , Vance Palmer , Deborah Jordan (editor), Blackheath : Brandl and Schlesinger , 2017 9831814 2017 single work correspondence

"These letters provide a remarkable, bird's eye view of the friendship, courtship and love of two `colonial intellectuals' played out in Melbourne, London and Brisbane. Their deep interest in knowledge, ideas and culture shapes their growing commitment to each other - their letters bring a relationship to life and capture a time. The tentative and increasingly passionate youthful correspondence sets the scene and tone for a life-time of collaboration and activism. Reading these moving and tender letters is a timely reminder of the enduring nature of love, the value of partnership, and the importance of engaging with the world." Professor Julianne Schultz, editor of Griffith Review

"The great originality of Deborah Jordan's collection of Vance and Nettie Palmer's love letters is that it shows us not just the private life-the desire, the love, the searching for self-behind the public life of two of Australia's most significant literary figures but the private in the public life and the public in the private life, revealing how their private and public selves were intimately entangled." David Carter, Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History, University of Queensland

"The Palmers were prolific letter writers and their observations on the people around them, their social and cultural circumstances and the natural world make for rich reading. We are privy to the emotional, intellectual, political and spiritual development of one of the most significant partner - ships in Australian literary history, that of Janet (Nettie) Higgins and Vance Palmer." Elaine Lindsay, author of Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Women's Fiction

1 From : Golconda Vance Palmer , 2002 extract novel (Golconda)
— Appears in: Hot Iron Corrugated Sky : 100 Years of Queensland Writing 2002; (p. 52-53)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Brand of the Wild and Early Sketches Vance Palmer , Verona : Universita di Verona. Dipartimento di Anglistica , 2002 Z1000377 2002 selected work short story novella Includes a serialised novel and 19 sketches published in the Sunday Chronicle (Manchester) between 1911 and 1914. Most of the sketches are gently ironic observations of the small snobberies, vanities and human frailties of working- class and lower middle-class English society.
1 Vance and Nettie Palmer Nettie Palmer , Vance Palmer , 1995 single work correspondence
— Appears in: With Fond Regards : Private Lives through Letters 1995; (p. 108-117)
1 Interview with Jack London Vance Palmer (interviewer), 1987 single work interview
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 13 no. 2 1987; (p. 235-236)
1 The Outpost (from Hurricane) Vance Palmer , 1982 extract novel
— Appears in: New Guinea Images in Australian Literature 1982; (p. 145-151)
1 The Passage Vance Palmer , 1980 single work extract
— Appears in: The Crossing : An Anthology of Australian Adolescence 1980; (p. 8-13)
1 14 y separately published work icon Letters of Vance and Nettie Palmer 1915-1963 Nettie Palmer , Vance Palmer , Vivian Smith (editor), Canberra : National Library of Australia , 1977 Z119658 1977 selected work correspondence
1 Last Leave Vance Palmer , 1975 single work short story
— Appears in: Australian Short Stories 1975;
1 What is Love? Vance Palmer , 1974 single work short story
— Appears in: An Australian Selection : Short Stories By Lawson, Palmer, Porter, White and Cowan 1974; (p. 85-99) North of Capricorn : An Anthology of Prose 1989; (p. 116-127)
1 The Camp i "This is the camp,", Vance Palmer , 1971 single work poetry
— Appears in: Other Banners : An Anthology of Australian Literature of the First World War 1971; (p. 119-123) Clubbing of the Gunfire : 101 Australian War Poems 1984; (p. 63-66)
1 The Legend Vance Palmer , 1971 extract criticism (The Legend of the Nineties)
— Appears in: The Australian Nationalists : Modern Critical Essays 1971; (p. 1-21)
1 10 y separately published work icon Intimate Portraits and Other Pieces : Essays and Articles Vance Palmer , Harry Payne Heseltine , Melbourne : Cheshire , 1969 Z98639 1969 selected work biography prose criticism essay
1 Albert Dorrington Vance Palmer , 1969 single work
— Appears in: Intimate Portraits and Other Pieces : Essays and Articles 1969;
1 Writers I Remember [5] : Randolph Bedford Vance Palmer , 1963 single work biography
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 26 1963; (p. 21-22) Intimate Portraits and Other Pieces : Essays and Articles 1969; (p. 98-102)
1 The Literary Tradition Vance Palmer , 1961 extract criticism (The Legend of the Nineties)
— Appears in: A Book of Australia 1961; (p. 295-296)
1 Something Has Gone ... i "Something has gone from the world since we passed the dark oblation;", Vance Palmer , 1961 single work poetry
— Appears in: Makar , June no. 7 1961; (p. 5)
1 1 Sunny Morrow Vance Palmer , 1961 single work short story
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 2 September vol. 82 no. 4255 1961; (p. 38-40)
1 Writers I Remember [4] : Edward Dyson Vance Palmer , 1961 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 21 1961; (p. 22-23) Intimate Portraits and Other Pieces : Essays and Articles 1969; (p. 103-107)
Palmer provides a short biographical essay on Edward Dyson, based primarily on his own recollections.
1 Writers I Remember [3] : A.G. Stephens Vance Palmer , 1960 single work biography
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 17 1960; (p. 30-32) An Overland Muster : Selections from Overland 1954-1964 1965; (p. 123-127) Intimate Portraits and Other Pieces : Essays and Articles 1969; (p. 108-112)
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