Vernon Knowles
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Vernon Knowles 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.
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
.
He attended the University of Western Australia
University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...
but did not complete a degree. With some encouragement from Walter Murdoch
Walter Murdoch
Emeritus Professor Sir Walter Murdoch, KCMG was a prominent Australian academic and essayist famous for his intelligence, wit, and humanity. He was a Founding Professor of English and former Chancellor of University of Western Australia in Perth. Murdoch University, also in Perth is named after him...
, he turned to writing. He became an expatriate, living mostly in England.
Works
- Songs and Preludes (1917) poetry
- Lamps and Vine Leaves (1919), poetry, with Charles Rischbieth Jury 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)