Background
McCalman, Janet Susan was born on December 5, 1948 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Daughter of Laurie Brian and Hélène (Ulrich) McCalman.
(Journeyings begins with a tram journey-the sixty-nine tra...)
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. In an engrossing and highly original exploration of one of the most neglected subjects in Australian social history-the middle class-Janet McCalman has produced a worthy successor to her acclaimed portrait of working-class life, Struggletown.
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("Journeyings" is an engrossing and original exploration o...)
"Journeyings" is an engrossing and original exploration of one of the most neglected subjects in Australian social history - the middle class. The story begins with the number 69 tram collecting boys and girls from Melbourne's middle-class heartland on their first day of school for 1934. It is also the beginning of an extraordinary journey through Australian private life that has its roots in the gold rushes of the 1850s and joins our own time. 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. They come from Scotch College, the Methodist Ladies' College, Trinity Grammar School and Genazzano Convent, but they speak for many others. But who are they and what are their families like? How did they come to be at such schools? And what will happen to them once they leave? How do their minds tick and their hearts beat? They are not to know that ahead lie severe tests of character and belief. Their youth will soon be consumed by war; but already at school they show glimpses of the idealism that will distinguish them as a generation determined to build a better, safer world. They are destined to become one of Australia's most creative generations and many will deviate from the models and ideals being impressed upon them in 1934 by home, church and school. They will know failure, triumph, shame and distinction. Finally it is a story they will in part tell for themselves, for this book is not so much a history as a meditation - upon life and upon this country as it is remembered by some particular people from some particular place. "Journeyings" can be used as a companion to McCalman's portrait of working-class life, "Struggletown".
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("Struggletown" is a story of working-class life and polit...)
"Struggletown" is a story of working-class life and politics in twentieth-century Australia. McCalman writes with vigour and passion, using the Melbourne suburb of Richmond during the period 1900 to 1965 as a fascinating microcosm. Dr Janet McCalman is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne. In 1992 she was awarded the inaugural Max Crawford Medal by the Australian Academy of the Humanities for her scholarly achievement.
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McCalman, Janet Susan was born on December 5, 1948 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Daughter of Laurie Brian and Hélène (Ulrich) McCalman.
Bachelor with honors, University Melbourne, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, 1975.
Research fellow University Melbourne, since 1993.
(Journeyings begins with a tram journey-the sixty-nine tra...)
("Journeyings" is an engrossing and original exploration o...)
("Struggletown" is a story of working-class life and polit...)
Fellow Australian Academy Humanities (Max Crawford medal 1992, vice president since 1995).
Married Albert Knight. Children: Nicholas, Imogen.