Dulcie deamer autobiography
- Deamer (1890-1972) was a New Zealand-born writer, journalist, actor, and free spirit.
- Deamer (1890-1972) was a New Zealand-born writer, journalist, actor, and free spirit.
- Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie Deamer (13 December 1890 – 16 August 1972) was a New Zealand-born Australian novelist, poet, journalist, and actress.
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The Queen of Bohemia by Dulcie Deamer& An Incidental Memoir by Robin Dalton
Biography
by David McCooey•
May 1999, no. 210
The Queen of Bohemia: The autobiography of Dulcie Deamer by Dulcie Deamer
UQP $29.95 pb, 239 pp
An Incidental Memoir by Robin Dalton
Viking, $29.95 hb, 368 pp
Biography
by David McCooey•
May 1999, no. 210
It’s interesting how many comic autobiographers are theatrical, like Barry Humphries, Clive James, Hal Porter, and Robin Eakin, whose Aunts up the Cross (1965) is a minor masterpiece and very funny. Eakin’s belated follow-up, An Incidental Memoir, published under her married name of Dalton, compares interestingly with Dulcie Deamer’s posthumously published The Queen of Bohemia.
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David McCooey is a prize-winning poet, critic, and editor. His latest collection of poems is The Book of Falling, published by Upswell Pu
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The Queen of Bohemia: The Autobiography of Dulcie Deamer : Being "The Golden Decade"
This is Dulcie Deamer's own account of Sydney in the roaring twenties and of her extraordinary career as a novelist, journalist and thespian. After a childhood in New Zealand, where she barnstormed with a melodrama troupe, she toured the world before settling in Sydney, where she had been Australia's first female boxing reporter. At seventeen she won a major short story competition and went on to publish several exotic, sensual novels as well as poetry, plays and stories. Her irrepressible spirit expressed itself in love of parties, dancing and fancy dress. She and her friends formed a veritable 'Who's Who' of the Golden Decade of the 1920s.
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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, and actress. She was a founder and committee member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
Life
Deamer was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, daughter of George Edwin Deamer, a physician from Lincolnshire, and his New Zealand-born wife, Mable Reader. She was taught at home by her mother, who had been a governess.[1] She married Albert Goldie, a theatrical agent, in Perth, Australia, on 27 August 1908.[2] She bore six children, but separated from Goldie in 1922.[3]
Career
In the 1920–30s Dulcie Deamer was a poet, playwright and author in Sydney, where she was Australia's first female boxing reporter.[4]
Deamer was known as the "Queen of Bohemia" due to her involvement with Norman Lindsay's literary and artistic circle, the Bohemian world of Kings Cross, Sydney, and vaudeville.[5] During the inter-war years, many b
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