Vernon Knowles
Vernon Knowles (1899-1968) was an Australian author, born in Adelaide.
He attended the University of Western Australia but did not complete a degree. With some encouragement from Walter Murdoch, he turned to writing. He became an expatriate, living mostly in England.[1]
Knowles wrote a series of fantasy stories, The Street of Queer Houses and other Tales. [2] Neil Barron has stated: "Knowles's work is in the tradition of Richard Garnett and has affinities with the work of Lord Dunsany and Donald Corley, but he affects a more naive and relaxed style than any of these. His best stories are amusing literary confections."[2]
Works
- Songs and Preludes (1917) poetry
- Lamps and Vine Leaves (1919), poetry, with Charles Rischbieth Jury[3] and Edward James Ranembe Morgan
- Bypaths (1921)
- The Street of Queer Houses: And Other Stories (1924)
- Poems (1925)
- Here and Otherwhere (1926) stories
- Beads of Coloured Days: a study in behaviour (1926)
- Silver Nutmegs (1927) stories
- The Ripening Years (1927) poetry
- The Ladder (1929)
- Pitiful Dust. A study in frustration (1931)
- Two and Two Make Five (1935)
- Eternity In An Hour, a study in childhood (1932) memoir
- The Experience of Poetry (1935)
- Prince Jonathan. A dramatic lyric (1935)
- Love Is My Enemy (1947)
- Sapphires: Here and Otherwhere and Silver Nutmegs (1978, reprint)
References
- ↑ http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/recent-acquisitions4/virtual/photos/photo30.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Neil Barron, Fantasy and horror : a critical and historical guide to literature, illustration, film, TV, radio, and the Internet.Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1999. ISBN 0810835967
- ↑ http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140677b.htm
External links
- AustLit page
- A balance between sense and sensibility, 4 April 2007, article in The Australian
- Bibliography at Fantastic Fiction
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