Palmer, Janet Gertrude (Nettie) (1885 - 1964)

Nettie Palmer became involved in the suffrage movement and the socialist movement while she was completing her tertiary studies in London. It was there that she met her husband, Vance Palmer, and by 1917 the couple had returned to Australia with their first daughter, Aileen. A second daughter, Helen, was born that year. The family lived at Emerald, Victoria. Both Vance and Nettie were opponents of censorship and conscription, and Nettie had a regular column in the Argus. She also wrote for the Illustrated Tasmanian Mail and the Bulletin Red Page. Her essay on Modern Australian Literature 1900-1923 was published in 1924. Nettie Palmer became editor of the anti-fascist journal for women, Women Today, and edited memoirs, published short stories and poetry anthologies, made translations, and lectured to young writers.

• Higgins, Nettie (maiden name)

Events

c. 1910 - c. 1930

Career in journalism active

Mother of

• Palmer, Helen Gwynneth (1917 - 1979)

Australian Women Exhibitions

• The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html. [ Details... ]

Books

• Palmer, Nettie, The South Wind, John G. Wilson, London, 1914, 58 pp. [ Details... ]
• Palmer, Nettie, Shadowy Paths, Euston Press, London, 1915, 56 pp. [ Details... ]
• Palmer, Nettie, Talking It Over, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1932, 148 pp. [ Details... ]
• Palmer, Nettie, Fourteen Years: Extracts from a Private Journal, 1925-1939, Meanjin Press, Melbourne, 1948, 250 pp. [ Details... ]
• Palmer, Nettie, Henry Handel Richardson: A Study, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1950, 214 pp. [ Details... ]

Booklets

• Palmer, Nettie and Len Fox, Australians in Spain: Our Pioneers Against Fascism, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, 1948, 64 pp. [ Details... ]

Edited Books

• Palmer, Nettie (ed.), An Australian Story-Book, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1930, 280 pp. [ Details... ]
• Smith, Vivian (ed.), Letters of Vance and Nettie Palmer, 1915-1963, Vance and Nettie Palmer, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1977, 254 pp. [ Details... ]

Lectures

• Palmer, Nettie (ed.), 'Modern Australian Literature (1900-1923)', Lothian Prize Essay, Lothian Publishing Co, Melbourne, 1924. [ Details... ]

See also

• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
• Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]