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Title: Loving Words: Letters of Nettie & Vance Palmer, 1909-1914
Author: JORDAN DEBORAH (ED)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/07/2018
Imprint: BRANDL & SCHLESINGER
Price: $39.95
Publishing status: Active
These letters provide a remarkable, birds eye view of the friendship, courtship and love of two colonial intellectuals played out in Melbourne, London and Brisbane. Their deep interest in knowledge, ideas and culture shapes their growing commitment to each other their letters bring a relationship to life and capture a time. The tentative and increasingly passionate youthful correspondence sets the scene and tone for a life-time of collaboration and activism. Reading these moving and tender letters is a timely reminder of the enduring nature of love, the value of partnership, and the importance of engaging with the world. Professor Julianne Schultz, editor of Griffith Review
The great originality of Deborah Jordans collection of Vance and Nettie Palmers love letters is that it shows us not just the private lifethe desire, the love, the searching for selfbehind the public life of two of Australias most significant literary figures but the private in the public life and the public in the private life, revealing how their private and public selves were intimately entangled. David Carter, Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History, University of Queensland
The Palmers were prolific letter writers and their observations on the people around them, their social and cultural circumstances and the natural world make for rich reading. We are privy to the emotional, intellectual, political and spiritual development of one of the most significant partner – ships in Australian literary history, that of Janet (Nettie) Higgins and Vance Palmer. Elaine Lindsay, author of Rewriting God: Spirituality in Contemporary Australian Womens Fiction
ISBN: 9780994429667
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm