The Dyehouse

✍ Scribed by Calthorpe, Mena

• Book ID: 108917876
• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 148 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781925355758

✦ Synopsis

Written with unerring skill and insight, The Dyehouse is a masterly portrait of postwar Australia, when industrial work was radically transformed by new technologies and society changed with it. Mena Calthorpe—who herself worked in a textile factory—takes us inside this world, vividly bringing to life the people of an inner-Sydney company in the mid-1950s: the bosses, middlemen and underlings; their dramatic struggles and their loves.

This powerful and affecting novel was first published in 1961, and is the hundredth book in the Text Classics series. The new edition comes with an introduction by Fiona McFarlane, acclaimed author of The Night Guest.

Mena Calthorpe was born in Goulburn, New South Wales, in 1905. There the editor of the Evening Penny Post , who had helped Miles Franklin early in her career, encouraged her to write. After marrying, Calthorpe moved to Sydney and lived for most of her life in the Sutherland Shire. Working in...