Journeyings: The Biography of Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990

Janet McCalman

ISBN 10: 052284569X / ISBN 13: 9780522845693

Published by Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, VIC, 1993

About this Item

It is the story of the life journeyings - both of the body and the mind - of a generation of children from four of Melbourne's legendary private schools during the 1930s Depression. 348 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Australian::Australian History; Australian History; ISBN: 052284569X. ISBN/EAN: 9780522845693. Inventory No: 275453.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Journeyings: The Biography of Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990
• Publisher: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, VIC
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052284569X
• ISBN 13: 9780522845693
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Australian::Australian History

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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.