A Parcel of Gold for Edith: Letters from Australia 1853-1875 - Couverture souple

Stevens, Joyce

 
9781873855362: A Parcel of Gold for Edith: Letters from Australia 1853-1875
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1873855362 ISBN 13 : 9781873855362
Editeur : John Owen Smith, 2001

Synopsis

This is the story of one of Australia’s Pioneer Women, who spent most of her life in the gold fields of Bendigo.In 1841, aged only 19, Ellen Suter fled poverty and squalor in the back-streets of Portsmouth and set off alone to live in the new colony of Victoria on the other side of the world.In Melbourne, she met and married James Read, a settler from Ipswich, Suffolk, more than twenty years her senior. Over the next 20 years she bore him fourteen children, only five of whom survived.Her story has been pieced together from the accidental discovery of seven letters written between 1853 and 1875 to her brother, William Suter, a papermaker in Headley, Hampshire.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This is the story of one of Australia’s Pioneer Women, who spent most of her life in the gold fields of Bendigo. In 1841, aged only 19, Ellen Suter fled poverty and squalor in the back-streets of Portsmouth and set off alone to live in the new colony of Victoria on the other side of the world. In Melbourne, she met and married James Read, a settler from Ipswich, Suffolk, more than twenty years her senior. Over the next 20 years she bore him fourteen children, only five of whom survived. Her story has been pieced together from the accidental discovery of seven letters written between 1853 and 1875 to her brother, William Suter, a papermaker in Headley, Hampshire.

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Éditeur
John Owen Smith
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1873855362
ISBN 13 
9781873855362
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
104
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