Hospital Children: Sketches Of Life And Character In The Children's Hospital, Melbourne
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Within the wards of Melbourne's Children's Hospital, a world of quiet courage, suffering, and resilience unfolds — and Jennings Carmichael was there to bear witness. Hospital Children: Sketches of Life and Character in the Children's Hospital, Melbourne chronicles the lives of young patients and the dedicated staff who cared for them, painting an intimate and deeply human portrait of Victorian-era medical life in Australia. Drawing on her firsthand observations, Carmichael presents a series of vivid, compassionate vignettes that capture the emotional landscape of illness and recovery, rendered with a sensitivity that transcends mere reportage. Carmichael, a pioneering Australian poet and writer of the late 19th century, brings a literary sensibility to this work that elevates it beyond a simple social document into something approaching art. Her prose is measured yet affecting, illuminating the intersection of poverty, childhood, and institutional care in colonial Melbourne with unflinching honesty. As both a historical record of Australia's early public health institutions and a testament to the enduring spirit of its youngest citizens, this rare volume asks a question that still resonates today: what does a society truly reveal about itself in the way it tends to its sick children?
Author: Jennings Carmichael
Format: Hardback
Published: 1991
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Within the wards of Melbourne's Children's Hospital, a world of quiet courage, suffering, and resilience unfolds — and Jennings Carmichael was there to bear witness. Hospital Children: Sketches of Life and Character in the Children's Hospital, Melbourne chronicles the lives of young patients and the dedicated staff who cared for them, painting an intimate and deeply human portrait of Victorian-era medical life in Australia. Drawing on her firsthand observations, Carmichael presents a series of vivid, compassionate vignettes that capture the emotional landscape of illness and recovery, rendered with a sensitivity that transcends mere reportage. Carmichael, a pioneering Australian poet and writer of the late 19th century, brings a literary sensibility to this work that elevates it beyond a simple social document into something approaching art. Her prose is measured yet affecting, illuminating the intersection of poverty, childhood, and institutional care in colonial Melbourne with unflinching honesty. As both a historical record of Australia's early public health institutions and a testament to the enduring spirit of its youngest citizens, this rare volume asks a question that still resonates today: what does a society truly reveal about itself in the way it tends to its sick children?