The Queen of Bohemia: The Autobiography of Dulcie Deamer edited and introduced by Peter Kirkpatrick

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned. Previous owner has signed inside page.

In the wild parties that characterised Sydney's writing and artistic community in the Roaring Twenties, Dulcie Deamer (1890-1972) was undisputed "Queen of Bohemia". But there was more to her fascinating life than performing the splits in a leopard skin.

Published now for the first time, this is her account of those lively times and of her extraordinary career as a novelist, journalist and thespian. After a childhood in New Zealand, where she barnstormed with a melodrama troupe, she toured the world before settling in Sydney, where she had been Australia's first female boxing reporter.

At seventeen, she won a major short story competition and went on to publish several exotic, sensual novels as well as poetry, plays and stories. Her irrepressible spirit expressed itself in a love of parties, dancing and fancy dress, and she was finally crowned "Empress of the Holy Bohemian Empire". Her friends formed a veritable who's who of the 1920s. She lived in Kings Cross for almost fifty years before she died in 1972. (back cover)