As I research for my 1924 Monday Musings series, I am coming across articles that don't neatly fit into 1924-dedicated posts but that I want to document. The most recent one concerned the Lothian Book Publishing Company. It was about a specific initiative, which I will discuss at the end of this post, but I … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Lothian Book Publishing Company
Nettie Palmer
Monday musings on Australian literature: A view from 1930
Today, another post in my occasional series of posts about Australian literature from the 1920s to the 1940s, this one featuring two critics of the time, HM Green (1881-1962) and Nettie Palmer (1885-1964). To do this, I'm using, primarily, a 1930 review in The Adelaide Advertiser of HM Green's book, An outline of Australian literature, … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: A view from 1930
Monday musings on Australian literature: Nettie Palmer on “Our Own Writers”
Today, I'm going to return to writing about early twentieth century Australian literature. Last year I wrote several Monday Musings on the topic, including two (Part 1 and Part 2) based on an article written by Nettie Palmer in 1927. Today's post draws from an article Palmer wrote in 1935. It covers some similar ground, but from … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Nettie Palmer on “Our Own Writers”
Monday musings on Australian literature: The novel in Australia, 1927-style, Part 2
Today's Monday Musings is Part 2 of my two post series discussing Nettie Palmer's article, "The novel in Australia", that was published in The Brisbane Courier, 15 October 1927. As I did in last week's post, I'll use her headings to share her view on Australia's great novels. A novelist abroad Here she discusses Australian writers who wrote … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: The novel in Australia, 1927-style, Part 2
Monday musings on Australian literature: The novel in Australia, 1927-style, Part 1
Nettie Palmer was one of Australia's leading literary critics, not to mention essayist and poet, through the 1920s to 1940s. I have mentioned her several times in this blog, including in my post on Australia's literary couples. She also mentored younger women writers such as Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw. However, what I want to discuss today … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: The novel in Australia, 1927-style, Part 1
Nettie Palmer on short stories
In a recent Monday Musings I mentioned Nettie Palmer who was part of one of Australia's famous literary couples. Her husband, Vance Palmer, wrote, in the late 1930s to early 1940s, a regular column for the ABC Weekly published by the then Australian Broadcasting Commission. Nettie Palmer also contributed to this paper, albeit less regularly. One of these contributions is a discussion, in … Continue reading Nettie Palmer on short stories
Monday musings on Australian literature: Australian literary couples
Are you fascinated, like I am, by literary couples? It seems so romantic to share one's calling with another ... even if the reality is not always as idyllic or as successful as it sounds. We've all heard of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, to name … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: Australian literary couples
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