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Bemalter Lehm: Australien-Roman
Vor Jahren war der Vorort Packington ein grünes, hügeliges, mit Eukalyptusbäumen bewachsenes Stück Land mit Blick auf die Port Phillip Bay und Melbourne. Mit dem Aufkommen von Bauspekulanten, Straßenbahnen und Zügen hatte sich das jedoch geändert, und jetzt war es ein beliebter Vorort der Mittelklasse, der stolz auf seine großen Geschäfte, die staatliche Schule, die öffentlichen Gärten und die Bibliothek war. Durch die Hauptstraßen donnerten die elektrischen Straßenbahnen auf ihrem Weg in die Stadt, und Hunderte von Menschen drängten sich zu jeder Tageszeit durch die belebten Straßen. Packington war schnell zum belebtesten Vorort außerhalb Melbournes geworden.
465 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 23, 2024
About the author
Capel Boake
4 books1 followerDoris Boake Kerr (29 August 1889 at Summer Hill, Sydney – 5 June 1944 at Caulfield, Victoria), a writer who published using the pseudonyms 'Capel Boake'[1] and Stephen Grey,.[2] Her publishing career began with a story appearing in the Australasian in January 1916. Other stories and stories appeared in the Victorian School Paper. She wrote four novels:
Painted Clay (Melbourne, 1917, published by the Australasian Authors' Agency and reprinted by Virago London in 1986);
The Romany Mark (New South Wales Bookstall Co, in 1923 );
The Dark Thread (Hutchinson London 1936), and
The Twig is Bent, written with the aid of a Commonwealth literary grant but published posthumously (Sydney, 1946).
Her subject matter included the options available to women in the early twentieth century, circus life, and early Melbourne history.
She used the pseudonym Stephen Grey when writing in collaboration with Bernard Cronin.
Capel Boake was also a poet: a collection of her verse was published posthumously in 1949 as The Selected Poems of Capel Boake. (Source Wikipedia)
Painted Clay (Melbourne, 1917, published by the Australasian Authors' Agency and reprinted by Virago London in 1986);
The Romany Mark (New South Wales Bookstall Co, in 1923 );
The Dark Thread (Hutchinson London 1936), and
The Twig is Bent, written with the aid of a Commonwealth literary grant but published posthumously (Sydney, 1946).
Her subject matter included the options available to women in the early twentieth century, circus life, and early Melbourne history.
She used the pseudonym Stephen Grey when writing in collaboration with Bernard Cronin.
Capel Boake was also a poet: a collection of her verse was published posthumously in 1949 as The Selected Poems of Capel Boake. (Source Wikipedia)
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