DERHAM, ENID (1882-1941), university lecturer and poet, was born on 24 March
1882 at Hawthorn, Melbourne, eldest daughter of Thomas Plumley Derham,
Bristol-born solicitor, and his wife Ellen Hyde, née Hodgson, of Melbourne. Enid
was educated first at Hessle College, Camberwell, then at the Presbyterian Ladies'
College. Hers was the last generation of P.L.C. girls to be educated in the
strictly classical tradition. Having won a non-resident exhibition to Ormond
College, she entered the University of Melbourne in 1900. She completed a B.A.
degree under Professor T. G. Tucker in classical philology in 1903, with first
place and first-class honours, and was awarded a scholarship to complete her M.A.
In December 1904 she won the Shakespeare scholarship, and in 1905 gained
first-class honours (and second place) in modern languages and literature.
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Educated at Presbyterian Ladies College and the University of Melbourne, Enid Derham graduated (BA) in classical philology in 1903 and her MA (Hons) in 1905. After tutoring in English at Trinity and Ormond colleges she spent six months at Oxford studying Anglo-Saxon and Old English. A member of 'The Catalysts' in 1912 she was a foundation member of both the Lyceum Club and the Classical Association of Victoria. Also her publications The Mountain Road and Other Verses and Empire, a Morality Play for Children were released in 1912. From 1922 until her death Derham was a lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne. In 1958 her second volume of poetry was published posthumously.
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