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‘Madness Stripped Away the Niceties’ : Tara Calaby Imagines Herself into a 19th-century Asylum, Catharine Coleborne , single work review
— Review of House of Longing Tara Calaby , 2023 single work novel ;

'Kew Asylum, when it opened in 1872, was the larger of two public institutions in wider Melbourne that housed people with mental illness. Grand and imposing, it opened a few years after the overcrowded Yarra Bend Asylum.' (Introduction)
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