Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Melissa Fagan, What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters Story
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'When Melissa Fagan stands before the famed McWhirters building in Valley Corner, she tries ‘to decipher what this immutable object, this icon, means to the city and me’, but finds that ‘the building is in my way’ (2018: 8). In this book, she tries to move beyond the Art Deco department store to examine the lives and work of the women who were connected to it by blood and marriage. Weaving together research, reportage, imagined lives and personal memoir, she illuminates the impact of wealth, social expectations and loss across five generations of women.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Queensland Review vol. 26 no. 1 June 2019 17169860 2019 periodical issue 'In this section of Queensland Review, we present a selection of articles from new research dealing with the conditions of life in early colonial Queensland. The articles have been collated as an initiative of the Harry Gentle Resource Centre (HGRC), based at Griffith University. In this brief introduction, we outline the aims of this Centre, signal some of its future directions and introduce the selected articles.' (Introduction) 2019 pg. 188-190
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