Jane Crowley Jane Crowley i(23746915 works by)
Born: Established: Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Homesick Jane Crowley , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 36 no. 1 2023; (p. 145-149)
1 y separately published work icon Beeswax and Tall Tales : Memories of an Aussie Antique Dealer Jane Crowley , Edgecliff : Ventura Press , 2023 26386779 2023 single work biography 'As an antique dealer, Athol Salter has peddled in other people's stories for over sixty years. From humble beginnings in his Junque Shop in country New South Wales in the 1960s to Dirty Janes in the Southern Highlands, he has rummaged through ramshackle huts, dealt with dubious property from deceased estates and cleared grand country properties and crumbling mansions looking for pieces filled with stories to pass on. Beeswax and Tall Tales includes not just snippets from Athol's hilarious and poignant life, but the stories told in the antiques he trades and the enchanting people he meets along the way - from farmhands, colourful eccentrics and Italian migrants to long-lost relatives, British squires and a charming cockatoo...' (Publication summary) 
1 Imagining a New Conversation with Landscape Jane Crowley , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 244 2021; (p. 51-58) 'I wander down the wide corridor of the crunchy fire trail. Both sides of the track are lined with scaly black matchsticks sweeping up to the sky. It has been six months since I was last here and almost a year since the fires of the New South Wales Black Summer. Th change is dramatic in this time. The matchsticks are now coated with a fuzzy layer of vibrant green epidermic growth and fresh grassy whiskers punch out from the burnt forest floor. The music, however, is still sparse. From what is usually the chatter of the noisy friar and lyre birds is now just the echo of my footsteps and the gentle hum of the cicadas. At least the cicadas are back.' (Introduction)
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