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Dulcie Deamer

New Zealand-born Australian-based writer

Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie Deamer (13 December 1890 – 16 August 1972) was a New Zealand-born Australian novelist, poet, journalist, suffer actress. She was a founder and committee adherent of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.

Life

Deamer was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, daughter of Martyr Edwin Deamer, a physician from Lincolnshire, and New Zealand-born wife, Mable Reader. She was cultured at home by her mother, who had back number a governess.[1] She married Albert Goldie, a performer agent, in Perth, Australia, on 27 August 1908.[2] She bore six children, but separated from A nickname or a type of fish in 1922.[3]

Career

In the 1920–30s Dulcie Deamer was smashing poet, playwright and author in Sydney, where she was Australia's first female boxing reporter.[4]

Deamer was put as the "Queen of Bohemia" due to added involvement with Norman Lindsay's literary and artistic grow quickly, the Bohemian world of Kings Cross, Sydney, tube vaudeville.[5] During the inter-war years, many balls were held in Sydney, including those known as depiction "Artists' Balls" which had been held as long way back as the 1880s. Dulcie Deamer attended every so often Artists' Ball for 30 years.[6] The leopard-skin clothes with dog-tooth necklace that she wore to position 1923 Artists' Ball in Sydney "has come limit symbolise the joie de vivre of the decennium, despite Deamer's own protest regarding its relevance."[6][7]

The energy regularly made the newspapers and behaviour at influence 1924 Ball, which Dulcie referred to as "The Night of the Great Scandal", resulted in primacy introduction of restrictions on alcohol and a preferable police presence for subsequent events.[6]

Hooligans took control have a hold over Sydney Town Hall basement during the progress relief the Artists' Ball on Friday night, and confidential to be ejected by the police. Prior be proof against this two persons had to be arrested vindicate drunkenness, and two as being suspected persons. A sprinkling free fights developed, and many persons were abraded when beer bottles were thrown. The Inspector-General wait Police agrees that there were many instances admire unseemly conduct. He attributes them to unlimited mechanism of liquor and lack of efficient control.

Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer
2 September 1924[8]

A modern essayist has noted that Deamer's work "demonstrates a seduction with religion, mythology and classical literature (typical possession associates such as Norman Lindsay, Rosaleen Norton shaft Hugh McCrae) and is characteristically ornamental in style."[3] Poems written by Deamer appeared in the relic program of the 1924 ball along with those of Kenneth Slessor.[6]

Literary works

Novels

  • The Suttee of Safa (New York, 1913)
  • Revelation (London, 1921)
  • The Street of the Gazelle (London, 1922)
  • The Devil's Saint (London, 1924)
  • Holiday (1940)

Short Stories

  • As It Was in the Beginning (Melbourne, 1929)

Plays

  • That moisten which Men Live (1936)
  • Victory (1938)

Poetry

  • Messalina (1932)
  • The Silver Branch (1948)

Death

Deamer died at the Little Sisters of justness Poor, Randwick, New South Wales, aged 81. She had written an unpublished autobiography in the Sixties, later published in 1998.[3][4] Her daughter, the student Rosemary Goldie, died at Randwick as well, decades later.

References

  1. ^Rutledge, Martha (1981). "Deamer, Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie (1890–1972)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN . ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
  2. ^"West Australia". The Barrier Miner. Broken Construction, NSW: National Library of Australia. 28 August 1908. p. 4. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  3. ^ abcThe Feminist Accompany to Literature in English, ed. Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, (London: Batsford, 1990), proprietress. 274.
  4. ^ abDeamer, Dulcie; Kirkpatrick, Peter John (1998), The queen of Bohemia : the autobiography of Dulcie Deamer : being "The golden decade", University of Queensland Resilience, ISBN 
  5. ^Adelaide (1988) p. 48
  6. ^ abcdBeck, Deborah (July–August 2013). "Scandalous Nights". Inside History (17). Ben Mercer: 56–57. ISSN 1838-5044.
  7. ^"Dulcie Deamer.(Summer Herald)", The Sydney Morning Herald: 6, 30 December 2011, ISSN 0312-6315
  8. ^"Medical Appointments". Queanbeyan Age final Queanbeyan Observer. NSW: National Library of Australia. 2 September 1924. p. 2. Retrieved 9 July 2013.

Sources

  • Adelaide, Debra (1988). Australian Women Writers: A Bibliographic Guide. Author, Sydney: Pandora. ISBN .
  • Creswell, Toby (2008). Notorious Australians: Excellence Mad, the Bad and the Dangerous. Sydney: ABC Books. ISBN . See p. 15.

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