- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE3740
Palmer, Janet Gertrude (Nettie)
- Birth name Higgins, Janet Gertrude
- Born 18 August 1885, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
- Died 19 October 1964
- Occupation Author, Critic, Editor, Journalist, Print journalist
Summary
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.
Events
- 1910 - 1930
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2001
Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women
Archival resources
- Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection
- National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
- State Library of Victoria
Published resources
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Resource Section
- Palmer, Janet Gertrude (Nettie) (1885-1964), Duffy, C. J., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110134b.htm
- Edited Book
- Booklet
- Book
- Lecture
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Site Exhibition
- 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
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Resource
- Trove: Palmer, Nettie (1885-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-573431