Enid Derham
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Enid Derham (March 24, 1882 – November 13, 1941) was an Australian poet and academic.
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[edit] Life
She was born at Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, the eldest daughter of Thomas Plumley Derham, solicitor. She 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.
She was appointed senior lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne in 1922, and held this position for the rest of her life. She died suddenly of a brain haemorrhage.
[edit] Writing career
In 1912 she published The Mountain Road and Other Verses, and Empire: A Morality Play for Children. She also edited books of prose, poetry and drama.
Melbourne University Press released a posthomous anthology of her work called Poems in 1952.
While her poetry was influenced by her classical studies, she was one of the earliest Australian writers to recognise the poetry of Emily Dickinson.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Adelaide (1988) p. 49
[edit] References
- Adelaide, Debra (1988) Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide, London, Pandora
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Derham, Enid". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain 1949 edition of Dictionary of Australian Biography from Project Gutenberg of Australia, which is in the public domain in Australia and the United States of America.
