Enid Derham

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Enid Derham (March 24, 1882 – November 13, 1941) was an Australian poet.

She was born at Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria. She was the eldest daughter of Thomas Plumley Derham, solicitor, and was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College and the University of Melbourne. She graduated M.A. with final honours in classics in 1903, and subsequently studied at Oxford University. In 1912 she published The Mountain Road and Other Verses, and Empire: A Morality Play for Children. She was appointed senior lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne in 1922, and held this position for the rest of her life.

Melbourne University Press released a posthomous anthology of her work called Poems in 1952.

[edit] Reference

• Serle, Percival. (1949). "Derham, Enid". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.

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