Loving Words: Letters of Nettie and Vance Palmer, 1909-1914

Deborah Jordan

Loving Words: Letters of Nettie and Vance Palmer, 1909-1914
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Brandl & Schlesinger Pty Ltd
Country
Australia
Published
1 July 2018
Pages
500
ISBN
9780994429667

Loving Words: Letters of Nettie and Vance Palmer, 1909-1914

Deborah Jordan

Nettie Palmer was Australia’s most important literary critic in the between-wars period. Truly cosmopolitan, she and her husband Vance Palmer celebrated the achievements of Australian culture on the world stage. Edited and introduced by Deborah Jordan, Loving Words: Love Letters of Nettie and Vance Palmer, 1909-1914 is a snapshot of Australian history.

“These letters provide a remarkable, bird’s 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 Jordan’s collection of Vance and Nettie Palmer’s love letters is that it shows us not just the private life-the desire, the love, the searching for self-behind the public life of two of Australia’s 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 Women’s Fiction.

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