Nettie Palmer

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…

Smith provides a bibliography of Nettie Palmer's literary journalism between 1918 and 1936.

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…

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…

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…

Examines the social significance attributed to Price Warung by Vance and Nettie Palmer, Russel Ward and Ian Turner and others.

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…

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…