Derham, Enid (1882 - 1941)

Educated at Presbyterian Ladies College and the University of Melbourne, Enid Derham graduated (BA) in classical philology in 1903 and her MA (Hons) in 1905. After tutoring in English at Trinity and Ormond colleges she spent six months at Oxford studying Anglo-Saxon and Old English. A member of 'The Catalysts' in 1912 she was a foundation member of both the Lyceum Club and the Classical Association of Victoria. Also her publications The Mountain Road and Other Verses and Empire, a Morality Play for Children were released in 1912. From 1922 until her death Derham was a lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne. In 1958 her second volume of poetry was published posthumously.

Membership

• The Catalysts' Society (1910 - )

  One of the original 19 members of 'The Catalysts'

  [1910 - 1941]

• Lyceum Club (Melbourne) (1912 - )

  [1912 - 1941]

Books

• Derham, Enid, Notes on the school treasury of English literature. Section 1, Thomas C. Lothian, Melbourne, 1911, 47 pp. [ Details... ]
• Derham, Enid, The mountain road and other verses, Osboldstone & Co., Melbourne, 1912, 51 pp. [ Details... ]
• Derham, Enid, Empire : a morality play for children, [Victoria League of Victoria], Melbourne, 1912, 16 pp. [ Details... ]
• Derham, Enid, How the animals came to Australia : an uncensored account, Melbourne, 1930, 8 pp. [ Details... ]
• Derham, Enid, Poems, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1958, 19 pp. [ Details... ]
• Ellis, Adele and Derham, Enid, Two centuries : selections from English prose and poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries, Melbourne, 1904, 211 pp. [ Details... ]

Book Sections

• Palmer, Imelda, 'Derham, Enid', in Nairn, Bede and Serle, Geoffrey (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 8, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., p. 289. [ Details... ]

See also

• Adelaide, Debra, Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Title Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide / Debra Adelaide. Published, Pandora Press, London ; Sydney, 1988, 208 pp. [ Details... ]
• Alexander, Joseph A (ed.), Who's Who in Australia, 1941, The Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, 748 pp. [ Details... ]
• Kelly, Farley, Degrees of liberation : a short history of women in the University of Melbourne, Women Graduates Centenary Committee, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., 1985, 172 pp. [ Details... ]
• Paper-Clip Collective., Melbourne University portraits : they called it "The Shop", Dept. of History, University of Melbourne with the assistance of the History of the University Unit, Parkville, Vic., 1996. [ Details... ]
• Ridley, Ronald T, Jessie Webb, a memoir, University of Melbourne, Department of History, Parkville, Vic., 1994, 208 pp. [ Details... ]
• Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography, vol. 1 of 2, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1949. [ Details... ]