Daisy Bates: The Great White Queen of the Never Never

by Elizabeth Salter

New Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972. 1st American Edition, Hardbound, 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall), 266 pages. Bibliography, index. Dust jacket design by Charles Mikolaycak. Includes two sections of black and white photo plates.

266 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Elizabeth Fulton Salter (2 Oct 1918-14 Mar 1981) was born into a Barossa Valley pioneering family which opened one of South Australia's first wineries.

An Australian expatriate author, Salter went to the United Kingdom in the 1952 and was later secretary to Dame Edith Sitwell from 1956 until Sitwell's death in 1964. During that time she wrote and published mystery novels. Later she wrote biographies.

She joined the ABC as a record librarian and script writer. During World War II she was WAAF officer in charge of entertainment. After Salter left Australia for England, she worked for the BBC and wrote professionally.

Select bibliography:
Daisy Bates: Queen of the Never Never
The lost impressionist
Dame Edith Sitwell
Tails she dies (unpublished on her death)
Once upon a tombstone
The voice of the peacock
Will to survive
Silver rain.

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

I finished it and I am sad. Sad that it is all
so ephemeral, sad that Daisy, like the Aborigines, rose, shone, and set.