The Queen of Bohemia: The autobiography of Dulcie Deamer
UQP $29.95 pb, 239 pp
An Incidental Memoir
Viking, $29.95 hb, 368 pp
The Queen of Bohemia by Dulcie Deamer & An Incidental Memoir by Robin Dalton
It’s interesting how many comic autobiographers are theatrical, like Barry Humphries, Clive James, Hal Porter, and Robin Eakin, whose Aunts up the Cross (1965) is a minor masterpiece and very funny. Eakin’s belated follow-up, An Incidental Memoir, published under her married name of Dalton, compares interestingly with Dulcie Deamer’s posthumously published The Queen of Bohemia.
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The Queen of Bohemia: The autobiography of Dulcie Deamer
by Dulcie Deamer
UQP $29.95 pb, 239 pp
An Incidental Memoir
by Robin Dalton
Viking, $29.95 hb, 368 pp
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