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THEIR CHASTITY WAS NOT TOO RIGID is the first study devoted to leisure times in early Australia. The violent, vindictive, vulgar society of the Britain that settled a convict colony in Sydney in 1788, brought gambling and horseracing, cricket and prizefighting and a love of boisterous leisure that characterized the Old Country. Good theatre and music soon followed. The early generations of Australians found more of their heroes among sportsmen, entertainers and artists than among princes and politicians. CHASTITY introduces some of their earliest celebrities - Elizabeth Macarthur, John Piper, Barnett Levey, Eliza Winstanley, William Vincent Wallace, Georgiana McCrae, William Sparkes, John Perry the Black, George Coppin, even the fabulous Madonna of her day, Lola Montez.
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