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Aileen Yvonne Palmer (1915–1988)
Aileen Yvonne Palmer (1915-1988), poet, translator and political activist, was born on 6 April 1915 in London, elder daughter of Australian-born writers Edward Vivian (Vance) Palmer and his wife Janet (Nettie) Gertrude, née Higgins. The Palmers arrived back in Australia in October that year. Aileen and her sister Helen were home-schooled by Nettie in the Dandenongs, near Melbourne, and then at Caloundra, Queensland. In 1929 the family returned to Melbourne; Aileen attended Presbyterian...