Description
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 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
Specifications:
Publisher: Brandl & Schlesinger
Year: 2018
Format: Paperback
Pages: 435pp
ISBN: 9780994429667
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