Solid Bluestone Foundations: And Other Memories Of A Melbourne Girlhood 1908-1928
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the sun-dappled streets and parlours of early twentieth-century Melbourne, a young girl comes of age against a backdrop of iron-laced fences, bluestone foundations, and a city still finding its identity — Solid Bluestone Foundations and Other Memories of a Melbourne Girlhood 1908-1928 is Kathleen Fitzpatrick's intimate and luminous memoir of growing up in one of Australia's great cities. With remarkable clarity and affection, Fitzpatrick chronicles the rhythms of middle-class suburban life, the textures of domestic ritual, and the social codes that shaped women's lives in the years bracketing the First World War and the Roaring Twenties. A distinguished historian and the first woman to hold a personal chair at the University of Melbourne, Fitzpatrick brings a scholar's precision and a storyteller's warmth to her own past, illuminating how private memory intersects with public history. Her prose is measured yet evocative, drawing readers into a Melbourne that was simultaneously provincial and aspirational, where the bluestone foundations of its buildings mirrored the solid, unyielding values of its inhabitants. This rare memoir leaves the reader wondering what else those quiet streets concealed beneath their respectable facades.
Author: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Macmillan
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the sun-dappled streets and parlours of early twentieth-century Melbourne, a young girl comes of age against a backdrop of iron-laced fences, bluestone foundations, and a city still finding its identity — Solid Bluestone Foundations and Other Memories of a Melbourne Girlhood 1908-1928 is Kathleen Fitzpatrick's intimate and luminous memoir of growing up in one of Australia's great cities. With remarkable clarity and affection, Fitzpatrick chronicles the rhythms of middle-class suburban life, the textures of domestic ritual, and the social codes that shaped women's lives in the years bracketing the First World War and the Roaring Twenties. A distinguished historian and the first woman to hold a personal chair at the University of Melbourne, Fitzpatrick brings a scholar's precision and a storyteller's warmth to her own past, illuminating how private memory intersects with public history. Her prose is measured yet evocative, drawing readers into a Melbourne that was simultaneously provincial and aspirational, where the bluestone foundations of its buildings mirrored the solid, unyielding values of its inhabitants. This rare memoir leaves the reader wondering what else those quiet streets concealed beneath their respectable facades.