This Goodly Land

Florence Glass Palmer (February 16, 1895–May 23, 1977)

Other Names Used

• Florence Glass: birth name

Alabama Connections

• Uniontown, Perry County: birthplace, childhood residence, brief adult residence

Selected Works

• Palmer, Florence Glass. Life and Miss Celeste. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1937.
• Palmer, Florence Glass. Spring Will Come Again. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940.

Biographical Information

Florence Glass Palmer was born and grew up in Uniontown, Ala. She attended Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., and Columbia College in Columbia, S.C. Palmer taught at Uniontown High School briefly. After her marriage, Palmer moved with her husband to Pensacola, Fla., and became active in clubs and civic organizations there. Her first novel, Life and Miss Celeste, published in 1937, originated as a manuscript produced for a creative writing project. Her second novel was published three years later. Although Palmer did not publish any more, she continued her participation in the Pensacola arts community. After her death in 1977, Palmer’s children endowed a music scholarship in her name at the University of West Florida.

Interests and Themes

Florence Glass Palmer’s novels depict former aristocrats in reduced circumstances struggling to survive in the “New South.” Spring Will Come Again is set in a fictional version of Uniontown.

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Reference Articles

• "Former Alabamian Has First Novel Published". Birmingham Age-Herald 21 Aug. 1937: 1.

Reference Web Sites

• Moore, Linda B. "Florence Glass Palmer". The Encyclopedia of Alabama. 2009. Alabama Humanities Foundation and Auburn University. http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-2409.

Location of Papers

• University of Florida

Last updated on May 30, 2008.