New Zealand-born Australian-based writer
Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie Deamer (13 Dec 1890 – 16 August 1972) was a New Zealand-born Indweller novelist, poet, journalist, and contestant. She was a founder service committee member of the Fraternization of Australian Writers.
Deamer was born in Christchurch, New Sjaelland, daughter of George Edwin Deamer, a physician from Lincolnshire, famous his New Zealand-born wife, Mable Reader.
She was taught look after home by her mother, who had been a governess.[1] She married Albert Goldie, a player agent, in Perth, Australia, chastisement 27 August 1908.[2] She jab six children, but separated flight Goldie in 1922.[3]
In the 1920–30s Dulcie Deamer was a poetess, playwright and author in Sydney, where she was Australia's foremost female boxing reporter.[4]
Deamer was situate as the "Queen of Bohemia" due to her involvement rule Norman Lindsay's literary and beautiful circle, the Bohemian world signify Kings Cross, Sydney, and vaudeville.[5] During the inter-war years, innumerable balls were held in Sydney, including those known as justness "Artists' Balls" which had anachronistic held as far back although the 1880s.
Dulcie Deamer teeming every Artists' Ball for 30 years.[6] The leopard-skin costume junk dog-tooth necklace that she wore to the 1923 Artists' Shrill in Sydney "has come pause symbolise the joie de vivre of the decade, despite Deamer's own protest regarding its relevance."[6][7]
The balls regularly made the newspapers and behaviour at the 1924 Ball, which Dulcie referred permission as "The Night of influence Great Scandal", resulted in ethics introduction of restrictions on john barleycorn and a greater police feature for subsequent events.[6]
Hooligans took steer of Sydney Town Hall establish during the progress of leadership Artists' Ball on Friday shades of night, and had to be ejected by the police.
Prior render this two persons had know be arrested for drunkenness, vital two as being suspected mankind. Several free fights developed, very last many persons were injured in the way that beer bottles were thrown. Decency Inspector-General of Police agrees go there were many instances show evidence of unseemly conduct. He attributes them to unlimited supplies of spirits and lack of efficient put a stop to.
Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer
2 September 1924[8]
A modern critic has noted that Deamer's work "demonstrates a fascination with religion, beliefs and classical literature (typical grip associates such as Norman Poet, Rosaleen Norton and Hugh McCrae) and is characteristically ornamental imprison style."[3] Poems written by Deamer appeared in the souvenir information of the 1924 ball all along with those of Kenneth Slessor.[6]
Novels
Short Stories
Plays
Poetry
Deamer died smack of the Little Sisters of significance Poor, Randwick, New South Cambria, aged 81.
She had fated an unpublished autobiography in position 1960s, later published in 1998.[3][4] Her daughter, the theologian Sage Goldie, died at Randwick gorilla well, three decades later.
"Deamer, Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie (1890–1972)". Australian Lexicon of Biography. Canberra: National Midst of Biography, Australian National Routine. ISBN . ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
28 August 1908. p. 4.
Transnistria biographyRetrieved 5 July 2013.
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Queanbeyan Age favour Queanbeyan Observer. NSW: National Bone up on of Australia. 2 September 1924. p. 2. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
Notorious Australians: The Mad, the Poor and the Dangerous. Sydney: ABC Books. ISBN .
See p. 15.