Description
From the Preface:
“Fitzroy People 2 follows on from our 2022 publication, Fitzroy People, and focuses on the lives and experiences of women and men who lived and/or worked in Fitzroy and Fitzroy North in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The youngest of our subjects died in the 1980s.
For the most part, the people whose lives are examined in this book are those whose stories have not been previously told. Their lives give us an insight into a past where these suburbs were vastly different from the places we know them as today. A number of the occupations described here no longer exist or not in the numbers they once did. These include the mantle maker, the hat blocker and the public baths operator (for people whose homes in the late nineteenth century did not include a bathroom). We also have stories of people whose occupations were more recognisable – the founder of a school, a butcher, a piano teacher, an hotelier, a timber merchant, grocers and textile clothing and footwear industry machinists. Included in the book as well, we have a story of the Fitzroy years of a faith healer and evangelist whose notoriety was such that James Joyce could not resist mocking him in Ulysses.”
Specifications:
Publisher: Fitzroy History Society Inc.
Year: 2024
Format: Paperback
Pages: 114pp
ISBN: 9780646700236
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