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🏡 John and Elsie Curtin
John and Elsie Curtin moved to Cottesloe in 1918 and later built their family home in Jarrad Street. For John, the beachside setting differed sharply from his earlier life in crowded Melbourne suburbs. Work as editor of the Westralian Worker preceded federal politics and his wartime prime ministership. The surviving house preserves the domestic side of a career usually described through national decisions. Elsie’s family and community responsibilities belong in that history too. The modest home places a household, garden and neighbourhood behind one of the most demanding public roles an Australian has held.
📚 Elizabeth Jolley
Elizabeth Jolley made her home at Claremont after moving to Western Australia with her husband in 1959. Publication came relatively late: her first book, Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories, appeared in 1976 when she was in her fifties. Novels, stories and international recognition followed, alongside teaching at Fremantle Arts Centre and Curtin University. She believed teaching helped her own writing, making the exchange more than a supplementary occupation. Her Claremont home and a small Darling Range orchard provided different settings for family and work, while her fiction developed an unsettling, often comic interest in human vulnerability.
