Merioola

The Story of a Famous Sydney House

Edith M. Ziegler

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Arcadia
01 August 2025

History; Australasian & Pacific history

This Merioola is a strange old house. There are rooms and passages and west wings and surprising hidden courtyards that one comes on accidentally: there are customs and ceremonies, peculiar rites and festivals that have grown up with the habit of the characters who live here. The artist, Donald Friend, diarised these comments in 1946 just after renting a room in Merioola, a colonial mansion in Sydney's Woollahra then operating as a boarding house. Its tenants were dancers, designers, musicians, painters, sculptors, writers and other creative types. In the 1940s it was the centre of the city's bohemian life. But for eighty years prior to Merioola's phase as an 'artists' colony,' it was already famous for the prominent people who lived there and their legendary fetes and fashionable balls. This is the story of Merioola and its residents and their triumphs and tragedies over all the years of its existence.

By: Edith M. Ziegler
Imprint: Arcadia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781923267374
ISBN 10: 192326737X
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 01 August 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Edith M. Ziegler is an Australian historian and writer. Some of her books include The Worlds and Work of Clarice Beckett (Arcadia, 2022), Dancing for the Marquis (2019), and Darling Mother, Darling Son: The Letters of Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne, 1929-1972 (2017).