Author: CAMBRIDGE, ADA.
Title: Thirty Years In Australia.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. (viii), 304, original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, and in black on front board, previous owner's bookplate, cloth worn closed tear on rear endpaper, good copy. London, Methuen & Co; 1903. The author sailed to Australia a month after her wedding, and the book picks up her story from this point, moving with her husband to a number of Victorian towns, Wangaratta, Yackandandah, Ballan, Coleraine, Bendigo Bechworth and Williamstown. In thirty years we learn not only about one women's opinions on the period of the Boom, the Great Strike and Federation, but also about the loneliness of country parsonages such as that beside the Wannon River outside Coleraine which drove her "melancholy mad".
Keywords: Australia Australian general history British female experience of Australian life biography
Title: Thirty Years In Australia.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. (viii), 304, original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, and in black on front board, previous owner's bookplate, cloth worn closed tear on rear endpaper, good copy. London, Methuen & Co; 1903. The author sailed to Australia a month after her wedding, and the book picks up her story from this point, moving with her husband to a number of Victorian towns, Wangaratta, Yackandandah, Ballan, Coleraine, Bendigo Bechworth and Williamstown. In thirty years we learn not only about one women's opinions on the period of the Boom, the Great Strike and Federation, but also about the loneliness of country parsonages such as that beside the Wannon River outside Coleraine which drove her "melancholy mad".
Keywords: Australia Australian general history British female experience of Australian life biography
Price: AUD 85.00 = appr. US$ 58.81 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 98241
- Book number: 98241