· 'Vivid, fresh and utterly unsentimental Calthorpe's own experience of factory and office work provides The Dyehouse with many authentic touches × Author: Mena Calthorpe. · Originally published in , Mena Calthorpe's The Dyehouse is the th in the series, and a great choice. It is introduced by Fiona McFarlane, Author: Debra Adelaide. The Dyehouse is the first of only three novels ever written by Australian author, Mena (Philomena) Calthorpe. It was first published in , and this Text Classics edition. “There was something disturbing about his expressionless face. The fair, straight hair, the shrill eyes, the droop of the mouth/5.
Reading The Dyehouse has been, for me, a process of rediscovery — of a lost voice, the precise, insightful voice of Mena Calthorpe. Of a lost Sydney — or perhaps only a displaced one. Of a. 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 mids: the bosses, middlemen and. The Dyehouse () is the debut novel by Australian writer Mena Calthorpe. Story outline. The novel is set in a textile dye factory in a drab Sydney industrial suburb. It follows the interacting stories of the men and women who work at the Southern Textiles Dye Work in the mids.
The Dyehouse () was followed by The Defectors (), which dramatised unions’ internal power struggles. Mena Calthorpe’s third and final novel was The Plain of Ala, an Irish migrant story, which was published in She died in ‘[The Dyehouse] is executed with a singular combination of charm, grace and tough-mindedness.’ Meanjin. 'Vivid, fresh and utterly unsentimental Calthorpe's own experience of factory and office work provides The Dyehouse with many authentic touches × Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. Originally published in , Mena Calthorpe's The Dyehouse is the th in the series, and a great choice. It is introduced by Fiona McFarlane, who first discovered the novel among the "glorious.
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