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    Grungewick

    By Michael Winkler

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    Murder. Mayhem. Misdeeds.

    In the nineteenth century, Brunswick was a satellite suburb of Melbourne. While the big city boomed, Brunswick was a place of “bricks and pottery, mud and poverty” with the unruliness of a frontier town.

    This collection of contemporary newspaper stories provides a vivid picture of the seamy side of life in 1800s Brunswick. It includes famous outrages such as the trial and execution of ‘baby farmer’ Frances Knorr; Mary Ryckman attacking her neighbour with dynamite; and the outbreak of Irish sectarian violence in Sydney Road. It also captures lesser-known incidents that, together, portray a much harder time: street larrikins, pub brawls, industrial deaths, poisoning both accidental and deliberate.

    Grungewick provides an unusual window into Australian life in the 1800s and shows that, even when times are toughest, the dignity and resilience of everyday people can shine through.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVivid Publishing
    Release dateMar 1, 2015
    ISBN9781925209914
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    Michael Winkler

    Michael Winkler is a writer from Melbourne, Australia, living on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. He is the author, co-author and editor of numerous books, and won the Calibre Essay Prize for ‘The Great Red Whale.’ His journalism, short fiction, reviews, and essays have been widely published, and anthologised. His novel, Grimmish, was short-listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2022.

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