Blogs about: Victorian Cities And Streets
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On Bowery Gals &c
In her now-venerable book, City of Women, first published in 1986, Christine Stansell writes about the emergence of an ebullient young workingwomen’s culture in 1840s New York. This young womanl… more →
The Vapour Trail
On Bowery Gals &c
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Melissa Bellanta wrote 1 year ago: In her now-venerable book, City of Women, first published in 1986, Christine Stansell writes about t … more →
Sleepless in Smith-street
Melissa Bellanta wrote 1 year ago: You hear plenty about how chronically underslept the kids are these days, compared to some unspecifi … more →
A diaspora of fruit and fancy-goods
Melissa Bellanta wrote 2 years ago: In a short-lived little paper, Society, published in Sydney in 1886, the editor describes a city tee … more →
Larrikin theatricalities
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Melissa Bellanta wrote 2 years ago: So recently I finished a piece about larrikin culture, and its theatricality, in late-19thC Australi … more →
The Truth on Sydney's CTB
Melissa Bellanta wrote 2 years ago: When I was last at Mitchell Library, I went back to an 1870s newspaper I’d encountered briefly … more →
What happened to the gin and the mayhem?
Melissa Bellanta wrote 2 years ago: I’ve just finished a paper based on research I carried out before beginning my postdoc here at … more →
