Nettie Palmer
Articles
- Review of Douglas Stewart by Clement Semmler and Vance and Nettie Palmer by Vivian Smith
These two so different books stand an old adage on its head. Easy writing said Byron, makes damned hard reading. Semmler makes a reader feel…
1 October 1975 - Nettie Palmer: A Checklist of Literary Journalism, 1918-1936
Smith provides a bibliography of Nettie Palmer's literary journalism between 1918 and 1936.
1 October 1973 - Vance and Nettie Palmer: The Literary Journalism
Vance and Nettie Palmer engaged in literary journalism throughout their careers. They knew that good reviewing in the weeklies and monthlies is—in Frank Kermode's words—'an…
1 October 1973 - A Note on Nettie Palmer’s Journalism
While researching the journalism of Nettie Palmer, Robin Lucas found some items to be added to the checklists of Palmer’s work by Vivian Smith and…
1 May 2001 - Review of Nettie Palmer: Her Private Journal "Fourteen Years", Poems, Reviews and Literary Essays, edited by Vivian Smith
The edition of Nettie Palmer's writings edited by Vivian Smith has so far attracted precious little critical attention. This is astonishing to me. In a…
1 October 1989 - Convict Legends, Australian Legends: Price Warung, the Palmers and Others, 1927-1970
Examines the social significance attributed to Price Warung by Vance and Nettie Palmer, Russel Ward and Ian Turner and others.
1 May 1980 - ‘This edition howls to heaven to be withdrawn’: The Palmer Abridgement of Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life.
When the abridged English edition of Joseph Furphy's Such is Life appeared on the shelves of Australian booksellers in the middle of 1937, many of…
28 April 2020 - Towards a History of Literary Programming on ABC Radio
After the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) was established in 1932, music occupied just over half of airtime, with talk making up the balance. With the…
29 October 2020 - Defining the Field of Irish-Australian Literature: Challenges and Conundrums
What constitutes Irish-Australian literature – if such a category exists – is by no means clear. This essay seeks to map the field and identify…
30 September 2021 - ‘Ourselves Alone’? Encounters Between the Irish Literary Revival and Australian Settler-Modernisms, ca. 1913 – 1919
This essay examines intellectual exchanges between early twentieth-century Australian literary nationalists and the Irish literary revival, with attention to the transnational and imperial differences in…
30 September 2021
Contributors
- Frances Devlin-Glass
- Bridget Griffen-Foley
- Cecil Hadgraft
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Robin Lucas
- Roger Osborne
- Vivian Smith
- Vivian Smith
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- Jimmy H. Yan