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'I do not think that I believe in ghosts, but just for this morning, just for the time it will take to ramble through this quiet city under clouds the colour of tin, or of pigeons' wings, I am going to believe in them.
'Ordinary lives are revealed as extraordinary, as Carol Lefevre traces the stories of West Terrace Cemetery's little-known inhabitants: there is the tale of the man who fatally turned his back on a tiger, and the man who avoided one shipwreck only to perish in another; there is the story of the young woman who came home from a dance and drank belladonna, and those who died at the hands of one of South Australia's most notorious abortionists.
'Said to be the most poetic place in Adelaide, in this heritage-listed burial ground the beginnings of the colony of South Australia are still within reach. Amid a sea of weather-bleached monuments, the excavated remains of Australia's oldest crematorium can be seen, and its quietest corner shelters the country's first dedicated military cemetery.
'From archives, and headstones, the author recovers histories that time and weather threaten to obliterate. Quiet City is a book for everyone who has ever wandered through an old graveyard and wished its stones could speak.' (Publication summary)
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Quiet City: Walking in West Terrace Cemetery by Carol LeFevre
2017
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— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 9 no. 2 2017; 'Have you ever stood by the graveside of a man who was killed by a tiger? Or speculated why a married woman would be so unhappy that she could bring herself to drink belladonna? Or perhaps considered why a girl might be buried under a false name? These are a handful of the extraordinary stories of otherwise ordinary lives that I encountered in the pages of Carol Lefevre’s Quiet City: Walking in West Terrace Cemetery.' (Introduction) -
Signs of Life
2016
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 14 May 2016; (p. 24) -
Review : Quiet City
2016
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— Appears in: Southerly , August vol. 76 no. 1 2016; (p. 211-217)
— Review of Quiet City : Walks in West Terrace Cemetery 2016 single work prose -
A Grave Injustice
2016
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 September 2016; (p. 18)
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Review : Quiet City
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , August vol. 76 no. 1 2016; (p. 211-217)
— Review of Quiet City : Walks in West Terrace Cemetery 2016 single work prose -
Signs of Life
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 14 May 2016; (p. 24) -
A Grave Injustice
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 September 2016; (p. 18) -
Quiet City: Walking in West Terrace Cemetery by Carol LeFevre
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 9 no. 2 2017; 'Have you ever stood by the graveside of a man who was killed by a tiger? Or speculated why a married woman would be so unhappy that she could bring herself to drink belladonna? Or perhaps considered why a girl might be buried under a false name? These are a handful of the extraordinary stories of otherwise ordinary lives that I encountered in the pages of Carol Lefevre’s Quiet City: Walking in West Terrace Cemetery.' (Introduction)