Urban
Articles
- [Keeping Up Appearances]
You could tell them by signs that were plain; by the ink-stains; by the bits of mortar or plaster on their hats and clothes; by…
1 October 1982 - A Lady’s Letter from London: 1873-1908
Between 1873and her death in 1908, Mrs Frances Cashel Hoey, wife of the secretary to the Victorian agent-general in London, regularly contributed 'A Lady's Letter…
1 October 1984 - Joe Lynch, Bohemian Hero of Five Bells
Prominent among the wilder bohemians of Sydney in the 1920s was Joseph Lynch, a gifted black-and-white artist originally from New Zealand. Jack Lindsay placed him…
1 May 1988 - Some of the Ghosts: Growing Up in Tasmania
Writer Carmel Bird shares her recollections of growing up in Tasmania.
1 October 1989 - Sheer Voice and Fidget Wheels: A Study of 'Five Bells'
A close reading of Slessor's poem grounded in consideration of the poetic 'I'. 'Except at certain deliberate points 'Five Bells' tends to make the speaking…
1 May 1988 - Subdivisions of Suburbia: The Politics of Place in Melissa Lucashenko’s Steam Pigs and Amanda Lohrey’s Camille’s Bread
The Australian intelligentsia's critical or ambivalent response to the suburbs and suburbia has been well-documented, though the gender-blindness of urban theorising often goes unremarked (Harman…
1 November 1998