Dulcie Deamer

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Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie Deamer (13 December 1890 – 16 August 1972) was an Australian novelist, poet, journalist and actor. She was a founder and a committee member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.

Life

She was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, daughter of George Edwin Deamer, a physician from Lincolnshire, and his New Zealand-born wife, Mable Reader. Dulcie Dreamer was taught at home by her mother, who had been a governess.

Dulcie Dreamer was known as the "Queen of Bohemia" due to her involvement with Norman Lindsay's literary and artistic circle, the Bohemian world of Kings Cross, Sydney, and vaudeville.^[1]

Dreamer died at the Little Sisters of the Poor, Randwick, New South Wales, aged 81. Her daughter, the theologian Rosemary Goldie, died there as well, three decades later.

Works

Novels

• The Suttee of Safa (New York, 1913)
• Revelation (London, 1921)
• The Street of the Gazelle (London, 1922)
• The Devil's Saint (London, 1924)
• Holiday (1940)

Plays

• That by which Men Live (1936)
• Victory (1938)

Poetry

• Messalina (1932)
• The Silver Branch (1948)

References

1. ^ Adelaide (1988) p. 48

Sources

• Adelaide, Debra (1988) Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide (London: Pandora)

External links

• Australian Dictionary of Biography entry

Persondata
Name	Deamer, Dulcie
Alternative names
Short description	New Zealand-born Australian-based writer
Date of birth	13 December 1890
Place of birth	Christchurch, New Zealand
Date of death	16 August 1972
Place of death	Randwick, New South Wales, Australia