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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 A Room in Bombay and Other Stories
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'This intriguing and colourful collection of stories was written when the author first went to India in 1949 and during her return in the 1980s. A beautifully crafted book, it is startlingly fresh in style.Dorothy captures an India that is no longer-an India at the time of independence but still marked by colonialism and class. We meet the people of one of the world's most crowded and colourful cities-Bombay, and experience some of Dorothy's most unusual adventures and escapades. Dorothy often ventures where no man, let alone a woman at this time, would dare to go. Her "reality" journalism is racy but still maintains a sense of dignity and grandeur with a shrewd eye for what is hidden just below the surface.The chapter headings give a taste: The Queen's Necklace, Commuting to and from Bombay, Caught short at the Bazaar, A cup of tea at the bank British-Raj style, Dowry Dracmas, Bombay Opportunists versus Western Adventurers, That's Not Cricket Mr Kipling, The Sikistan Riddle and Lord Louis Mounbatten's Treachery, and The Myths of the British Raj.'  (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: This book is dedicated to the Indian people who made memorable my visits to their country and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, DBE, AC, who encourages one to act 'not just a dream'.
  • Epigraph: 'But for me, all the East is contained in that vision of my youth. It is all in that moment when I opened my young eyes on it ... and that is all that is left of it. Only a moment; a moment of strength, of romance, of glamour, of youth ... the time for a sigh, and - goodbye.' From Youth by Joseph Conrad.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Melbourne, Flemington - North Melbourne area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Pluto Press , 2005 .
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      Extent: xii, 195 p.p.
      ISBN: 1864032499

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Other Voices Tony Maniaty , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 29 October 2005; (p. 16)

— Review of A Room in Bombay and Other Stories Dorothy Wentworth-Walsh , 2005 selected work autobiography
Two of Us : Dorothy Wentworth-Walsh & Dame Elisabeth Murdoch John Van Tiggelen , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 29 October 2005; (p. 22)
Other Voices Tony Maniaty , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 October 2005; (p. 16-17)

— Review of The Olive Sisters Amanda Hampson , 2005 single work novel ; An Accidental Terrorist Steven Lang , 2005 single work novel ; A Room in Bombay and Other Stories Dorothy Wentworth-Walsh , 2005 selected work autobiography
Bombay in a Sincere Mix Down Memory Lane Claudia Hyles , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 October 2005; (p. 13)

— Review of A Room in Bombay and Other Stories Dorothy Wentworth-Walsh , 2005 selected work autobiography
Untitled Eliza Metcalfe , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , October vol. 85 no. 4 2005; (p. 18)

— Review of A Room in Bombay and Other Stories Dorothy Wentworth-Walsh , 2005 selected work autobiography
Untitled Eliza Metcalfe , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , October vol. 85 no. 4 2005; (p. 18)

— Review of A Room in Bombay and Other Stories Dorothy Wentworth-Walsh , 2005 selected work autobiography
Bombay in a Sincere Mix Down Memory Lane Claudia Hyles , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 October 2005; (p. 13)

— Review of A Room in Bombay and Other Stories Dorothy Wentworth-Walsh , 2005 selected work autobiography
Other Voices Tony Maniaty , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 October 2005; (p. 16-17)

— Review of The Olive Sisters Amanda Hampson , 2005 single work novel ; An Accidental Terrorist Steven Lang , 2005 single work novel ; A Room in Bombay and Other Stories Dorothy Wentworth-Walsh , 2005 selected work autobiography
Other Voices Tony Maniaty , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 29 October 2005; (p. 16)

— Review of A Room in Bombay and Other Stories Dorothy Wentworth-Walsh , 2005 selected work autobiography
Two of Us : Dorothy Wentworth-Walsh & Dame Elisabeth Murdoch John Van Tiggelen , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 29 October 2005; (p. 22)
Last amended 17 Jan 2020 14:22:46
Subjects:
  • Mumbai,
    c
    India,
    c
    South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
Settings:
  • 1980s
  • 1949
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