During my research for The Edward Street Baby Farm (which is almost finished) I’ve come across some interesting, strange, and even bizarre characters living in Western Australia in the early 1900s. A few get a brief mention in my book,
Streets of purple and lemon
In November, the jacaranda trees in Perth burst into purple-blue clouds of flowers, a colourful reminder that Christmas is not very far way. As I was admiring those growing near our house yesterday, I wondered if Harriet Lenihan, one of