Ethel Anderson
Ethel Anderson | |
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Leamington, in Warwickshire , England | |
Died | 4 August 1958 Sydney, Australia | (aged 75)
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Ethel Campbell Louise Anderson (née Mason; 16 March 1883 – 4 August 1958) was an early twentieth century Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter. She considered herself to be mainly a poet, but is now best appreciated for her witty and ironic stories.[1] Anderson has been described as "a high-profile author, artist, art commentator and emissary for modernism".[2]
Life
Ethel Anderson was born in Lillington, a suburb of
On 8 October 1904 she married Brigadier-General
At the beginning of
While in England (1914–1924) Edith Anderson joined the Cambridge Group and mixed with artists such as Sir William Rothenstein. She painted murals for English churches and founded the Young Worcestershire Arts and Crafts Club.[6]
The Andersons later lived in
In Sydney she became an important supporter of modern art and the modernist painters
In Turramurra, Ethel Anderson founded the Turramurra Wall Painters Union in 1927. She was asked by the rector of St James' Church, Sydney to help decorate the Children's Chapel and designed a mural scheme for it which was executed by her artists group in 1929.[7]
On 16 March 1932, she opened the inaugural exhibition of the Modern Art Centre established by Dorrit Black in Margaret Street, Sydney, to teach and promote the Cubist ideas learned during Black's study trip to France.
The death of her husband in 1949 meant that she had to support herself, which she did through her writing, serialising her first novel At Parramatta in The Bulletin. She died on 4 August 1958 in Sydney.[4]
Works
Poetry
- Squatter's Luck and Other Poems (1942)
- Sunday At Yarralumla: A Symphony (1947)
- The Song of Hagar to the Patriarch Abraham (1957)
Non-fiction
- Adventures In Appleshire (1944)
- Timeless Garden (1945)
- Joy of Youth: The Letters of Patrick Hore-Ruthven (1950, ed.)
Fiction
- Indian Tales (1948)
- At Parramatta (1956)
- The Little Ghosts (1959)
- The Best of Ethel Anderson (1973, ed. by J. D. Pringle)
Painting
- Murals in the Children's Chapel of St James' Church, Sydney (with others)
References
- ISBN 978-0-86358-148-9.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-522-85673-6.
- ^ ISSN 1833-7538.
- ^ a b Australian Verse: An Illustrated Treasury, edited by Beatrice Davis, Library of New South Wales Press, 1996
- ^ "Ethel Anderson, b. 1883". National Portrait Gallery people. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Ethel Anderson :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online". www.daao.org.au. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ^ Speer, Anne. (1994). Anne Speer - Ethel Anderson: Pioneer Supporter of Sydney's Post-Impressionists, 1994. State Library of New South Wales. MLMSS 5951
Bibliography
- Adelaide, Debra (1986) Australian Women Writers: A Bibliographic Guide, London, Pandora
- Foott, Bethia, Ethel and the Governors' General, a biography of Ethel Anderson (1883-1958) and Brigadier-General A.T. Anderson (1868-1949), Rainforest, NSW
- E. Morris Miller & Frederick T. Macartney (1956), Australian Literature, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, p. 37.
- Speer, Anne (1994) Ethel Anderson: pioneer supporter of Sydney's Post-Impressionists.
- William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton & Barry Andrews (1986) The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, OUP, Melbourne, p. 25.