Journeyings. The Biography Of A Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990

McCalman, Janet Susan

ISBN 10: 052284569X / ISBN 13: 9780522845693

Published by Melbourne University Press, Carlton VIC, 1993

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Preface by author, acknowledgements, three appendices, bibliography and index. The text is illustrated with back and white line drawings. Illustrated end pages, showing Tram route 69 in 1934. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with gilt and white coloured titles to the front panel and blue and white coloured titles to the back strip. An engrossing and highly original exploration of one of the most neglected subjects In Australian social history -The Middle-Class. The story of a generation of students at four of Victoria's elite private schools during the 1930s depression, many of whom went on to forge significant places in Australian post-war society. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with rubbing of the book corners. Light tanning of the text block edges with a distinct yellow edge to the pages. A little ruffling of the dustwrapper edges and rubbing of the panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [5], VI - X, [6], 3 - 348, [6] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Australia; Education. ISBN: 052284569X. ISBN/EAN: 9780522845693. Inventory No: 51157. Seller Inventory # 51157

Bibliographic Details

Title: Journeyings. The Biography Of A Middle-Class...

Publisher: Melbourne University Press, Carlton VIC

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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.