01979nam 2200409 450 991079536160332120220531160544.01-922454-86-9(CKB)4940000000599254(MiAaPQ)EBC6561699(Au-PeEL)EBL6561699(OCoLC)1247670047(EXLCZ)99494000000059925420220531d2020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA bookshop in wartime /Jenny HorsfieldNorth Melbourne, Victoria :Arcadia,[2020]©20201 online resource (230 pages)1-922454-12-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Annotation.In April 1938 a small bookshop opened for business in Canberra, at a time when Australia's federal capital was still a country town and Burley Griffin's vision for its future had been defeated by years of war, depression and political indifference. In an era which was a golden age for books and booksellers, the bookshop, under its owner and manager Verity Hewitt, became a meeting place for booklovers as well as an art gallery and a library. Scientists, artists, diplomats, servicemen and women, public servants, writers, adventurers and immigrants all visited the shop during the war years. The bookshop was an important part of the city's social and cultural history. It witnessed Canberra's slow change, under the pressures of war, from a rural backwater to a reluctant and still unformed capital city.Booksellers and booksellingAustraliaBooksellers and bookselling338.470705730994Horsfield Jenny1549619MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795361603321A bookshop in wartime3807812UNINA