Article: 'From the lips of a lady': Mrs A.M. Hamilton-Grey's first biography of Henry Kendall.

THE 'stupidest writer', says Baruch Mendelssohn in Seven Poor Men of Sydney, 'can remain alive after his death', lamenting that a person like himself 'who talks only, and even becomes warm and radiant in talking, dies with each word as if he spat out nothing but sparks' (Stead 141). It is a sentiment that Mrs A.M. Hamilton-Grey may have appreciated. While the three books she wrote on Henry Kendall in the 1920s survive, her much earlier career on the lecture platform in the 1880s has disappeared with little trace. This essay sets out to examine Hamilton-Grey's career as a lecturer and as an author, tracing the lines of connection between the spoken and the textual in her ...

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