Vernon Knowles


Vernon Knowles was an Australian writer, 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.
Knowles wrote a series of fantasy stories, The Street of Queer Houses and other Tales. Neil Barron has stated: "Knowles's work is in the tradition of Richard Garnett and has affinities with the work of Lord Dunsany and Donald Corley, but he affects a more naive and relaxed style than any of these. His best stories are amusing literary confections."
He died in London in 1968.

Works

  • Songs and Preludes poetry
  • Lamps and Vine Leaves, poetry, with Charles Rischbieth Jury and Edward James Ranembe Morgan
  • Bypaths
  • The Street of Queer Houses: And Other Stories
  • Poems
  • Here and Otherwhere stories
  • Beads of Coloured Days: a study in behaviour
  • Silver Nutmegs stories
  • The Ripening Years poetry
  • The Ladder
  • Pitiful Dust. A study in frustration
  • Two and Two Make Five
  • Eternity in an Hour, a study in childhood memoir
  • The Experience of Poetry
  • Prince Jonathan. A dramatic lyric
  • Love Is My Enemy
  • ''Sapphires: Here and Otherwhere and Silver Nutmegs''