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democracy, 1, 2
Denison, Sir William, 1
Devine, Latilda, 1
Dilke, Charles, 1, 2
Dobell, William, 1, 2, 3
Dockyard, 1
Domain, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Donaghoe, Jack, 1
Double Bay, 1
downtown Sydney, 1, 2
drinking, 1 ‘six o’clock swill’, 1
Dumaresq brothers, 1
Dunbar (clipper), 1
Eberingham, Matthew, 1
economy boom and recession, 1
early capitalism, 1
early years, 1
1930s, 1
trade and industry, 1, 2, 3
wealthy acquisition of, 1
Edinburgh, Alfred, Duke of, 1, 2
education British style, 1
foreign, 1
private, 1, 2
Elizabeth farm, 1
Elizabeth II, 1n.
Elyard, Samuel, 1
Endeavour, H.M.S., 1
Ervin Art Gallery, 1
establishment 1, 2, 3
excursion boats, 1
Experiment Farm Cottage, 1, 2
farming settlements, 1
fauna, 1, 2
ferries, 1
Field, Barron, 1n., 2, 3
film-making, 1
fish, 1
Fitzgerald, Maurice, 1
FitzGerald, Robert David, 1
FitzRoy, Lady, 1, 2
Fitzroy, Sir Charles Augustus, 1
Flinders, Matthew, 1, 2
flora, 1
Foo-Choo, 1
food, 1
Fort Denison, 1, 2
Fort School, 1
forts, 1
Fowler, F., 1
France expedition of 1788, 1
French in Sydney, 1
Freeman, George, 1
Friend, Donald, 1
fruit bats, 1, 2
Gallipoli campaign, 1
gambling, 1, 2
Game, Sir Philip Woolcott, 1n.
Garden Island, 1, 2, 3, 4
gardening, 1
Garran, Sir Robert, 1
General Post Office, 1
Gibbes, J. G. N., 1
Gilmore, Mary, 1
Gipps, Lady, 1
Goat Island, 1
Gocher, William Henry, 1 and n.
gold mining, 1
Goossens, Sir Eugene, 1, 2
Gordon, Adam Lindsay, 1
Gorton, Sir John, 1n.
Government House, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Granny Smith apples, 1
Great North Walk, 1
Great Synagogue, 1, 2, 3, 4
Greenway, Francis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Griffin, Walter Burley and Marion, 1, 2
Gypsy Teas, 1
Haberfield, 1
Hall, Edward Smith, 1
Hallett, Angelica, 1
Handland, Dorothy, 1, 2
Harbour, see Sydney Harbour
Harbour Bridge, 1, 2, 3, 4 building, 1
opening, 1
Hargrave, Lawrence, 1
Hargraves, Edward, 1n.
Harris, Alexander, 1
Harry the Hat, 1
Hayes, Sir Henry Browne, 1
heavy industry, 1
Henderson, Peter, 1
Henrietta Villa, 1, 2
Hibberd, Jack, 1
Holtermann, Bernard Otto, 1
homosexuality, 1
honours system, 1
Hood, John, 1
Hope, A. D., 1
Hopwood’s Terrace, 1
Home, Donald, 1
Hornsby, 1
horse-racing, 1
hospital, 1 first, 1
Howe, George, 1, 2
Hughes, Robert, 1, 2
Hughes, William Morris, 1
Hunter, Captain John, 1, 2
Hunters Hill, 1, 2
Hurley, Frank, 1
Hyde Park, 1, 2, 3
Hyde Park Barracks, 1
Immigration, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Americans, 1
Chinese, 1
Europeans, 1
Irish, 1
Jewish, 1
ten-pound immigrants, 1
Inclinator, 1
Inglewood, 1
invasion threats, 1
Iora tribe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Irish immigrants, 1
Iron Men, 1
Israel, Cashmore, 1
Jackson, George, 1n.
Jacky-Jacky, 1
Japan
naval attack, 1, 2
yellow peril, 1
Jardine, D. R., 1
Jeffs, Phil, 1
Jenkins, John, 1
Jewish immigrants, 1
anti-Semitism, 1
Johnson, Rev. Richard, 1, 2, 3, 4
Johnston, George, 1
Jones, W. Lorando, 1n.
Joseph, Lewis, 1
Kahanamoku, Duke, 1
Kastellorizon, 1
Kerr, Joan, 1
Kieran, ‘Varney’, 1
King, William, 1
King’s Cross, 1, 2, 3, 4
Kingsford, 1
Kipling, Rudyard, 1, 2
Kirribilli, 1
Knatchbull, John, 1
Krishnamurti, Jiddu, 1
Kuttabul, H. M. S., 1, 2
La Pérouse, Jean-François de, 1
La Perouse, 1 Aboriginal community, 1, 2
land ownership, 1
Lang, Jack, 1
Lang, John Dunmore, 1, 2
Lang Street, 1
language female inflection, 1, 2
vernacular speech, 1
Lavender Bay, 1
Lawrence, D. H., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Lawson, Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4
Lazarus, Lewis, 1
Leichardt, 1
Leigh, Kathleen, 1
Levey, Barnett, 1, 2
Levey, Solomon, 1
Levy, Bernard, 1
life-saving clubs, 1
Lind, Jenny, 1
Lindsay, Norman, 1
literature, 1
Long Bay Prison, 1
Lord, Simeon, 1
Lord Mayor, 1
Luna Park, 1
Lynch, Jolly Grace, 1
Lyons, Samuel, 1
Macarthur, John and Elizabeth Veale, 1, 2
McKellar, J. A. R., 1
Mackenzie, David, 1
Mackintosh, Ann, 1
McMahon’s Point, 1
Macquarie, Lachlan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 attitude to Aborigines, 1
extravagances, 1
Macquarie Street, 1
Malaspina, Alessandro, 1, 2, 3, 4
Manly, 1, 2
Maori Wars (1861–71), 1
Marsden, Rev. Samuel, 1
Martin Place, 1, 2, 3
Masefield, John, 1
Matra, James, 1
Melba, Dame Nellie, 1
Merriwee (race-horse), 1
Mijovich, Alex, 1
Miklouho-Maklay, Nicolai de, 1
Miles, Bea, 1
Miles, William Augustus, 1n.
Miller’s Point, 1
Milson’s Point ferry wharf, 1, 2
Montez, Lola, 1
Morley, Robert, 1
Morris, A. R., 1
Morris, Peter, 1
Morrison, Alastair, 1n.
Mort, Thomas, 1, 2
Mart’s Cottage, 1
Mosman Bay, 1
Mount Druitt, 1
Muddle, R. G., 1
music-hall, 1
National Art School, 1
Naval connections, 1, 2 defences, 1
penal colony, 1
See also, British ties
Neutral Bay, 1, 2
New Australians, 1
New South Wales colonization, 1
Sydney as capital, 1
New South Wales Corps, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
newspapers, 1
Newtown, 1
Nichols, Beverley, 1
nicknames, 1
nineteenth-century Syndey, 1
; Nolan, Sydney, 1
Norfolk Island, 1, 2
North Sydney, 1
Northbridge, 1
O’Dowd, Bernard, 1
O’Flynn, Father Jeremiah, 1
Opera House, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 building, 1
opening, 1
Orton, Arthur, 1
P. and O. liner service, 1
painting, 1
Paradis sur Mer, 1, 2
Park, Ruth, 1
Parkes, Sir Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4
Parliament of NSW, 1
Parramatta, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Parramatta Female Factory, 1
penal Sydney, see transportation
Pennant, Thomas, 1n.
Phillip, Captain Arthur, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 attitude to Aborigine, 1
physique of people, 1, 2
picnics, 1
‘Pig Mary’, 1
Pinchagut Island, 1, 2
Pipe and Musket Society of NSW, 1
Piper, John, 1
Pitman, Joseph, 1n.
plague (1900), 1
Point Piper, 1, 2
police, 1
politics, 1
population, nineteenth-century, 1
port and maritime trade, 1, 2
Port Jackson, 1
Pottinger, Sir Frederick, 1
Potts, Joseph, 1
Potts Pointy, 1
Power, Elizabeth, 1
Powerhouse Museum of Applied Science, 1
Pringle, John Douglas, 1
prisons, 1
property prices, 1
prostitutions 1, 2, 3
public health, 1
public houses, 1
pushes (gangs), 1
Pyrmont Bridge, 1
Queen Victoria Building, 1
racism, 1, 2
Randwick race-course, 1
Ravanet, Juan, 1
Redfern, 1, 2
Rees, Lloyd, 1, 2
Regent Hotel, 1
Reibey, Mary, 1, 2, 3
Reilly, Richard, 1
religion, 1
republicanism, 1
restaurants, 1
Revesby, 1
rivalries with Australian cities, 1
Roberts, Tom, 1
Robinson, Grace Fairley, 1
Robinson, Michael Massey, 1
Rocks, 1–a, 2, 3, 4
Rodd Island, 1
Rodius, Charles, 1, 2
Rookwood Cemetery, 1, 2, 3
Rose Bay, 1, 2, 3
Rossi, Captain Nicholas, 1
Royal Botanic Gardens, 1 and n., 2, 3, 4
Royal Show, 1
Rubinstein, Harold, 1n.
Rugby football, 1
Rum Corps (New South Wales Corps), 1, 2
Rum Rebellion, 1
Ruse, James, 1
sailing, 1, 2
St Andrew’s Anglican Cathedral, 1, 2, 3, 4
St James’s Church, 1, 2, 3, 4
St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral, 1, 2
St Peter’s Church, 1
St Phillip’s Church, 1, 2
Samios, R. Nicolson, 1
Schaffer, Phillip, 1
sea-bathing, 1
Sergeant-Major’s Row, 1, 2
settlers classes of, 1
See also, immigration
sex, 1
sheep importation of merino, 1
See also, wool trade
shopping, 1, 2
Shore School, 1
Simmons, James, 1
Sirius Cove, 1
Slessor, Kenneth, 1n.
Smith, Ann, 1
Smith, Arthur Bowes, 1
Smith, Henry Gilbert, 1
Smith, Maria Ann, 1
Smith, Sydney, 1
snobbery, 1;
see also, class distinctions
social clubs, 1
Solander, Daniel, 1
Solomon, Isaac (Ikey), 1n.
South Steyne (ferry), 1
Spearitt, Peter, 1
Spencer-Stanfield, J., 1
sport passion for, 1
social clubs, 1
water sports, 1, 2
women cricketers, 1
Stanton, Richards, 1
Strand Arcade, 1
street pattern, 1
Streeton, Arthur, 1
suburbs, 1, 2, 3 fashionable, 1
inner city, 1
Sudan campaign, 1
Sutherland, Joan, 1, 2, 3
swifts, 1
swimming, 1
Sydney foundation of city, 1
status in Australia, 1
Sydney, H.M.A.S., 1
Sydney Cove, 1, 2, 3, 4 building works, 1
Sydney Cricket Ground, 1
Sydney Harbour boat trips, 1
bridge, 1;
see also, Harbour Bridge discovery, 1
fishing, 1
geography, 1
as a harbour, 1
picnics, 1
pilot station, 1
pride in, 1
sharks, 1
signal station, 1
surroundings, 1
water sports, 1
yachting, 1, 2, 3
Sydney lace, 1
Sydney Morning Herald, 1, 2
Sydney-to-Hobart Race, 1
Sydney University, 1
tall-poppy syndrome, 1, 2
Tank Stream, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Tawell, John. 1, 2
temperance movements, 1
Tench, Captain Watkin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Terry, Sam, 1
theatres, 1, 2
Theosophical Society, 1
Thermopylae (wool clipper), 1
Theroux, Paul, 1
tiger snake, 1
Titchborne claimant, 1
tourism, 1, 2
Town Hall, 1, 2, 3
Townshend, Thomas, 1st Baron Sydney, 1 and n.
trade and industry, 1
trade unions, 1, 2, 3
tramways, 1
transportation absconding prisoners, 1, 2
character of convicts, 1
class distinctions between convicts, 1
early years, 1, 2, 3
emancipation, 1, 2
ending of, 1
foreign convicts, 1
forts to prevent escape, 1
Irish convicts, 1
law-abiding citizens, 1
prosperous prisoners, 1, 2
strength of will of prisoners, 1
Trollope, Anthony, 1, 2
Twopenny, Richard, 1
Uele, Kilioni, 1
Ullah, Rahmat, 1
United States of America Americanization, 1
Americans in Sydney, 1
defence treaty with, 1
visit of fleet (1908), 1
University, 1
Utzon, Jøern, 1, 2
van Tassell, Val, 1
Vaucluse, 1
Vaucluse House, 1, 2, 3
Victoria, Queen, 1
Videll, Jean, 1
Vinegar Hill, Battle of (1804), 1
war memorials, 1
Warne, Thomas, 1
Watson, Robert, 1
Watson’s Bay, 1, 2, 3, 4
Webb, Beatrice, 1, 2
Wedgwood, Josiah‚ 1
Wells, Andrew, 1
Wentworth, William Charles, 1, 2, 3
whaling industry, 1
White, Patrick, 1, 2, 3, 4
White Australia policy, 1.
Wightman, Margaret, 1
Wilkes, Captain Charles, 1
William-Ellis, Clough, 1
Williamson, David, 1
Williamson, J. C., 1
Wills, Colin, 1
Wiseman, Solomon, 1
women convicts, 1
downtrodden state, 1
emancipated, 1
female convicts, 1
modern, young, 1
underclass, as, 1
voice inflection, 1, 2
wealthy, 1
wool trade, 1, 2, 3
Woolley, Dr John, 1
Woolloomooloo,
1, 2, 3n.
Worgan, George, 1, 2
World War I, 1, 2
World War 1, 2 Japanese submarine attack, 1
Wowserism, 1
About the Author
Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea. Her books include Coronation Everest, Venice, The Pax Britannica Trilogy (Heaven’s Command, Pax Britannica, and Farewell the Trumpets), and Conundrum. She is also the author of six books about cities and countries, two autobiographical books, several volumes of collected travel essays and the unclassifiable Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. A Writer’s World, a collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, was published in 2003. Hav, her novel, was published in a new and expanded form in 2006. Her most recent book, Contact!, about the people she encountered on her many travels, was published in 2009.
By the Same Author
HEAVEN’S COMMAND: AN IMPERIAL PROGRESS
PAX BRITANNICA: THE CLIMAX OF AN EMPIRE
FAREWELL THE TRUMPETS: AN IMPERIAL RETREAT
COAST TO COAST
CORONATION EVEREST
VENICE
CONUNDRUM
TRIESTE AND THE MEANING OF NOWHERE
A WRITER’S WORLD
EUROPE: AN INTIMATE JOURNEY
HAV
FISHER’S FACE
A VENETIAN BESTIARY
SPAIN
AMONG THE CITIES
THE GREAT PORT
THE HASHEMITE KINGS
HONG KONG
LINCOLN
MANHATTEN ’45
THE MARKET OF SELEUKIA
SOUTH AFRICAN WINTER
THE SPECTACLE OF EMPIRE
TRAVELS
A VENETIAN EMPIRE
CONTACT!
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First published in 2010