JOURNEYINGS The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation 1920 - 1990

McCalman, Janet

ISBN 10: 052284569X / ISBN 13: 9780522845693

Published by Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1993

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With map on endpapers, a fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; 240 x 150mm; xiv, 348 pages. Seller Inventory # 19480

Bibliographic Details

Title: JOURNEYINGS The Biography of a Middle-Class ...

Publisher: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine+

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

Journeyings begins with a tram journey - the sixty-nine tram collecting boys and girls from Melbourne's middle-class heartland on their first day of school for 1934. It marks the beginning of an extraordinary journey through Australian private life that commences with the gold rushes of the 1850s and concludes in our own time, tracing the life journeyings of a generation of boys and girls from four of Melbourne's legendary private schools. This is an engrossing and highly original exploration of one of the most neglected subjects in Australian social history - the middle class.

About the Author:

Janet McCalman is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, working on a social history of the Royal Women's Hospital, 1856-1966. She is the author of the award-winning history of the Melbourne working-class suburb of Richmond, Struggletown.