Adelaide's Dissenting Headmaster
John Lorenzo Young and His Premier Private School
$38.21
- Paperback
360 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2014
Summary
The discovery of schoolboy signatures - hidden under peeling wallpaper in an old Adelaide schoolhouse for 130 years - has led to this documentary history of John Lorenzo Young’s school and its 1600 students, among them the leading lights of the colony and many still prominent in South Australian business and academic life today. John Lorenzo Young, the dissenting headmaster, was a brilliant and creative teacher, a graduate in the ‘sciences of the enlightenment’ from King’s College London. He …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781743052402 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1743052405 |
| Author: | Diana Chessell |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 640g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 160mm |
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About The Author
Diana Chessell
Diana Chessell’s fascination with cross-cultural history and education reflects her 27 years lecturing and research at the University of South Australia and the Australian National University. Her extensive historical field research has taken her to Italy and Greece and for Mr Young, to Cornwall and Scotland and inside the archives of Adelaide, ‘city of dissenting churches’.
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