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Awakening: Four Lives in Art by Eileen Chanin
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
Ibsen's A Doll's House opened in Melbourne on 14 September 1889. The slam of the door as Nora left her husband echoed in the minds of thousands of young Australian women. This book is about four of these women, each of whom became an international pioneer in the arts. Dora Ohlfsen and her lover Countess ...Show more
Book Life: Reading the Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell 1836-1907 by Eileen Chanin
$59.95 AUD
Category: Literary
Australia's greatest book collector, David Scott Mitchell, gave his extraordinary library and a bequest for its development to the people of Sydney. This is the first comprehensive account of his life and what, how, and why he collected, told through his books, reading, and contemporary correspondence. ...Show more
Capital Designs - Australia House and Visions of an Imperial London by Eileen Chanin
$49.95 AUD
Category: Architecture
This book relates the untold story of how Australia's first diplomatic mission was conceived, designed and built. Commenced in 1913, Australia House was opened in 1918 while the Great War still raged. Being London's first purpose-built Dominion embassy building, it defined London as an Imperial capital. ...Show more
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