Nettie Palmer
Janet Gertrude "Nettie" Palmer was an Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic of her day. She corresponded with women writers and collated the Centenary Gift Book which gathered together writing by Victorian women.
18 August 1885
Born on the same birth day (18 August): Carl Wayne • Christian Slater • Josephine Langford • Katherine Victor • Liz Cambage • Lucy Ozarin • Maria Ulfah Santoso • Masta Killa • Paula Danziger • Tan Dun • Tom Prichard
Born in the same month (August 1885): August 15 • Dino Campana • DuBose Heyward • George de Hevesy • Grace Hutchins • Jean Cabannes • Jules Romains • Keith Murdoch • Stephen Butterworth • Tedda Courtney • Vance Palmer • Édouard Fabre