Geoffrey Dutton

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Geoffrey Dutton, 1959. Painted by Clifton Pugh.

Geoffrey 'Geppie' Piers Henry Dutton AO (2 August 1922 – 17 September 1998) was an Australian author and historian.

Biography

Dutton was born into a prominent pastoralist family of Anlaby Station near Kapunda, South Australia in 1922. His grandfather was Henry Dutton, the "Squire of Anlaby"; his parents were adventurer Henry Hampden Dutton and talented socialite Emily Dutton. For his relationship to these and other people prominent in the history of South Australia see Dutton family of South Australia.

Geoffrey grew up in four houses owned by his parents: Anlaby Station near Kapunda; Kalymna (or Kalimna) House, on the edge of the east parklands, Adelaide; Ooraminna, on the foreshore at Victor Harbor; and Rocky Point, a limestone house overlooking Eastern Cove, Kangaroo Island.[1] He was taught French as a young boy.[1]

At age eight, Geoffrey was sent to Wykeham Preparatory School near Belair, Adelaide. A year later, in 1931, his mother, Emily, sent him to Geelong Grammar School, Victoria.

He studied at the University of Adelaide, where he wrote for the student newspaper On Dit and avant-garde magazine Angry Penguins. He later studied at Magdalen College, Oxford. During his career, Dutton wrote or edited over 200 books, including poetry, fiction, biographies, art appreciation, art and literary history, travel books, novels for children and critical essays.

In 1965, together with Max Harris and Brian Stonier, he co-founded the Australian paperback publishing company Sun Books.[2] In June 1968, Dutton was appointed as an inaugural member of the Australian Council for the Arts.[3]

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1976,[4] and died in 1998.

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Novels

  • The Mortal and the Marble (Chapman & Hall, 1950)[5][6]
  • Andy (Collins, 1968)[7][8]
  • Tamara (Collins, 1970)[9][10]
  • Queen Emma of the South Seas (Macmillan, 1976)[11][12]
  • The Eye Opener (University of Queensland Press, 1982)[13]
  • Flying Low: A Novel (1992)[14]

Short stories

  • The Españo

Poetry

  • Night Flight and Sunrise (Reed & Harris, 1944)
  • Antipodes in Shoes (Edwards & Shaw, 1958)
  • Flowers and Fury: Poems (F. W. Cheshire, 1962)
  • On My Island: Poems (F. W. Cheshire, 1967)
  • Poems Soft and Loud (F. W. Cheshire, 1967)
  • Findings and Keepings: Selected Poems, 1939-1969 (Australian Letters, 1970)
  • North West: Fifteen Poems from the Pilbara and Kimberley (The author, 1971?)
  • New Poems to 1972 (Australian Letters, 1972)
  • A Body of Words (Edwards & Shaw, 1977)
  • Selective Affinities: New Poems (Angus & Robertson, 1985)
  • New and Selected Poems (Angus & Robertson, 1993)
  • New York Nowhere (Lytlewode Press, 1998)

Children's

  • Tisi and the Yabby (Collins, 1965)
  • Seal Bay (Collins, 1966)
  • Tisi and the Pageant (Rigby, 1968)
  • The Prowler (Collins, 1982)

Non-fiction

  • A Long Way South (Chapman & Hall, 1953)
  • Founder of a City: The Life of Colonel William Light, First Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia: Founder of Adelaide 1786-1839 (F. W. Cheshire, 1960)
  • Patrick White (Lansdowne Press, 1961) (Australian Writers and Their Work)
  • Australia and the Monarchy (Sun Books, 1966)
  • Edward John Eyre: The Hero as Murderer, Collins/F. W. Cheshire, Sydney (1967); reprint, Penguin Books, Melbourne (1977)
  • Russell Drysdale (Thames & Hudson, 1969) (The World of Art Series)
  • In Search of Edward John Eyre (Macmillan, 1982)
  • Snow on the Saltbush: The Australian Literary Experience (Viking, 1984)
  • The Squatters (Currey O'Neil, 1985) The author's life at Anlaby Station
  • Sun, Sea, Surf and Sand: The Myth of the Beach (Oxford University Press, 1985)
  • The Innovators: The Sydney Alternatives in the Rise of Modern Art, Literature and Ideas (Macmillan, 1986)
  • Kenneth Slessor: A Biography (Viking, 1991)
  • Out in the Open: An Autobiography (University of Queensland Press, 1994)
  • A Rare Bird: Penguin Books in Australia 1946-96 (Penguin Books, 1996)

Edited

  • Australia's Censorship Crisis (Sun Books, 1970) - with Max Harris
  • Australian Verse from 1805 : A Continuum (Rigby, 1976)
  • Republican Australia? (Sun Books, 1977) ISBN 0-7251-0261-6
  • Seven Cities of Australia (J. Ferguson, 1978)
  • Sir Henry, Bjelke, Don Baby and Friends (Sun Books, 1971) - with Max Harris
  • The Vital Decade: Ten Years of Australian Art and Letters (Sun Books, 1968) - with Max Harris
  • The Australian Bedside Book: A Selection of Writings from The Australian Literary Supplement (Macmillan, 1987) - preface by Morris West; contributors include Elizabeth Jolley, Dianne Highbridge, Les A. Murray, Tim Winton, Kate Grenville.

Family

Geoffrey's father, Henry Hampden Dutton married Emily Martin, on 29 November 1905; their children were;

  • John Hansborough Dutton (23 August 1906 – )
  • Richard Hampden Dutton (6 August 1909 – 13 December 1940) married Margaret Elizabeth Newland ( – ) on 25 February 1933. They had one child:
  • Bryony Helen Carola Dutton (22 October 1918 – 2005) was engaged to William Weatherly (Flying Officer with 459 Squadron and later awarded DFC) in 1940 but married American soldier William Robert Curkeet on 24 August 1942. She returned to South Australia in 1945; they divorced and she married distinguished lawyer Professor, later Sir, Richard Arthur "Dick" Blackburn OBE (26 July 1918 – 1 October 1987) on 1 December 1951. They had two children:
    • Charlotte Blackburn ( – ), later Calder
    • Tom Blackburn SC ( – )
  • Geoffrey Piers Henry Dutton (2 August 1922 – 17 September 1998), a noted writer. He had three children with his first wife, Ninette Trott:[15]
    • Francis Dutton
    • Sam Dutton
    • Tisi Dutton

References

  • The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History
  • The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
  • Who's Who in Australia 1999

References

  1. ^ a b Dutton, Geoffrey. (1994). Out in the open : an autobiography. University of Queensland Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-7022-2681-5. OCLC 31974964.
  2. ^ C4: Sun Books, Re:collection, recollection.com.au. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Arts Council members". The Canberra Times. 5 June 1968.
  4. ^ It's an Honour: AO
  5. ^ Dutton, Geoffrey; RWV Elliott collection (1950), The mortal and the marble, Chapman & Hall, retrieved 17 April 2022 – via Trove
  6. ^ "Novel of the Week". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. XV, no. 294. New South Wales, Australia. 3 March 1951. p. 14. Retrieved 17 April 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ Dutton, Geoffrey (1968), Andy, Collins, ISBN 978-90-300-1011-1
  8. ^ "Dutton's "Andy" (21 December 1968)", The Bulletin, 90 (4633), John Haynes and J.F. Archibald: 62, 21 December 1968, ISSN 0007-4039
  9. ^ Dutton, Geoffrey (1970), Tamara, Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-221833-7
  10. ^ "An irrelevant love offered nothing". The Canberra Times. Vol. 44, no. 12509. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 3 January 1970. p. 14. Retrieved 17 April 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ Dutton, Geoffrey (1976), Queen Emma of the South Seas: a novel, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-333-21038-3
  12. ^ "The Latest Book on Queen Emma". Papua New Guinea Post-courier. International, Australia. 30 April 1976. p. 19. Retrieved 17 April 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ^ Dutton, Geoffrey (1982), The eye opener, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-1623-7
  14. ^ Dutton, Geoffrey (1992), Flying low: a novel, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-2366-2
  15. ^ "At home among wildflowers and fellow artists". The Sydney Morning Herald. 16 July 2007. Retrieved 23 March 2023.

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