Ellen Nora Payne – Woodcarver of Tasmania | Russell Atkinson | 1975 | Signed Limited Edition [USED – HCDJ – Good]

Russell Atkinson's biography of Ellen Nora Payne — the Westbury-born woodcarver who lived 97 years and left her work in churches, schools and institutions across Tasmania and beyond.

Payne was born at Westbury in 1865, the twelfth of fourteen children of a Tasmanian farmer and politician whose own father had been a convict turned wealthy landowner. She took her first woodcarving lessons in Melbourne in the 1890s, trained at Goldsmiths College in London when her doctor husband was appointed physician to the Duke of Teck, and returned to Tasmania in 1908 to spend the rest of her long life carving.

The scope of her work was extraordinary — the altar and screens of St Andrew's Church at Westbury, WWI honour boards for the University of Tasmania and institutions across the state, 34 dower chests for family and friends, a commemorative medal for a blackwood screen at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, the Royal Coat of Arms for the Tasmanian Parliament in 1939, and a vestry plaque for All Hallows-by-the-Tower in London completed when she was in her early nineties.  She taught woodcarving to disabled returned soldiers after WWI.

The author was a journalist who had known the Payne family personally as a boy. This biography, the only one written, was launched on Westbury's Village Green beside St Andrew's Church in 1975. This is a signed limited edition copy.

BOOK DETAILS

• Hardcover with dust jacket.
• 110 pages.
• Illustrated.
• Signed limited edition.
• Published 1975 by Foot & Playsted, Launceston.

CONDITION

• Used, generally good condition.
• Dust jacket scuffed and marked with small shop stamp on front flap.
• Some wear to the cover edges.

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