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Serle was born in Victoria and for many years worked in a life assurance office before becoming chief clerk and accountant at the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne is a Public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. He married artist Dora Beatrice Hake.
He ran a second-hand bookshop during the depression; was guide-lecturer at the National Gallery of Victoria; curator of the Art Museum of the Gallery; and member of the council of the Victorian Artists Society. The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne Australia. Victorian Artists Society established in 1856 in Melbourne Australia promotes artistic education and exhibition in Australia. He was also president of the Australian Literature Society.
Serle's publications included an edition, with notes, of A Song to David and Other Poems by the eighteenth century English poet, Christopher Smart; A Bibliography of Australasian Poetry and Verse: Australia and New Zealand; An Australasian Anthology (with 'Furnley Maurice' and R H Croll); Dictionary of Australian Biography; and A Primer of Collecting. Christopher Smart (11 April 1722 &ndash 21 May 1771 otherwise known as "Kit Smart" "Kitty Smart" and "Jack Smart" was an English poet Frank Leslie Thomson Wilmot ( April 6 1881 - 22 February 1942) who published his work under the pseudonym Furnley Maurice, was a noted The Dictionary of Australian Biography, published in 1949, is a reference work by Percival Serle containing information on notable people associated with
The Dictionary took more than twenty years to complete and contains more than one thousand biographies of prominent Australians or persons closely connected with Australia. Serle comments in the Preface that "I have endeavoured to make the book worthy of its subject. It would have been better could I have spent another five years on it, but at seventy-five years of age one realizes there is a time to make an end. "
References
- The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (Second Edition, 1994).
- Geoffrey Serle, 'Serle, Percival (1871 - 1951)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, MUP, 1988, pp 567-569. The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB is a multi-volume project published by Melbourne University Press. Melbourne University Publishing (MUP is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne ( Australia)
External links
- Dictionary of Australian Biography (1949) courtesy of Project Gutenberg Australia (edited by Serle, contains details of people who died before 1942). Project Gutenberg of Australia, abbreviated as PGA, is an Internet site which was founded in 2001 by Colin Choat
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