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The Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford, Victoria
The Abbotsford Convent, located in the inner city Melbourne suburb of Abbotsford, operated as a convent, reformatory and Magdalen Asylum from 1863 until the mid-1970s. The convent was run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, a Catholic religious…
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Jubilee Grant
In this article, the author debates how £5000 earmarked for a Queen’s Jubilee commemoration by the WA Legislative Council could be best spent. The author begins by outlining the three suggestions that had been put forward, namely the establishment…
Tags: “medieval-ism”, Benevolent Asylum, celebration, civilisation, colony, commemoration, criminal class, gala, improvement, indigent, Jubilee, Legislative Council, literacy, literature, medieval past, medievalism, modernity, poor house, print, progress, public library, Queen Victoria, reading, reading practices, reformatory, Victorian era, Western Australia