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Cover of Pan edition of 'Come in Spinner' 1960

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Cover of Pan edition of 'Come in Spinner' 1960

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A City of One's Own: Women's Sydney

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A City of One's Own: Women's Sydney

A boom in apartment living brought freedom from the suburbs for many women in Sydney in the early twentieth century. In their writing, they celebrated Sydney as a place of unique freedoms, sensual pleasures and dangers for women;and the harbour as a steady, vivid source of joy

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Sydney Harbour Bridge

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Steel through arch bridge from Sydney business district to the North Shore, constructed between 1923 and 1932.

Come in Spinner

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Novel which contrasts the life of privilege with the reality of three Sydney working women in post war Sydney.