Dulcie deamer autobiography
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Dulcie deamer autobiography
Dulcie Deamer
New Zealand-born Australian-based writer
Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie Deamer (13 December 1890 – 16 August 1972) was a New Zealand-born Australian novelist, poet, journalist, and actress.
She was a founder and committee member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
Life
Deamer was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, daughter of George Edwin Deamer, a physician from Lincolnshire, and his New Zealand-born wife, Mable Reader.
She was taught at home by her mother, who had been a governess.[1] She married Albert Goldie, a theatrical agent, in Perth, Australia, on 27 August 1908.[2] She bore six children, but separated from Goldie in 1922.[3]
Career
In the 1920–30s Dulcie Deamer was a poet, playwright and author in Sydney, where she was Australia's first female boxing reporter.[4]
Deamer was known as the "Queen of Bohemia" due to her involvement with Norman Lindsay's literary and artistic circle, the Bohemian world