Hunters Hill

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Beverley Sherry

Abstract

The first colonists who came to Sydney in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries had come from crowded industrial cities in Britain. It is therefore not surprising that a particular suburban ideal began to emerge here, the 'Australian dream', of a house of one's own, set in its own grounds. By the twenty-first century that ideal was challenged by population pressure and economic factors, yet the Sydney suburb of Hunters Hill remains largely intact, and historically important, as the oldest surviving example of the ideal.

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Sydney's Suburbs
Author Biography

Beverley Sherry

Emma is the full time Editorial Coordinator for the Dictionary of Sydney. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from University of Technology, Sydney. She was senior researcher and an editor of Australian Feminism A Companion (OUP, 1998), and has extensive experience in print and online editing and writing.