Lost Relations: Fortunes of My Family in Australia's Golden Age by Graeme Davison
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Lost Relations: Fortunes of My Family in Australia's Golden Age by Graeme Davison

TBM9781743319468
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ISBN: 9781743319468
Author: Graeme Davison
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place: Crows Nest NSW
Year: 2015
Format: Paperback
Pages: 260 pages
Book Type: SECONDHAND
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

A widow and her eight older children are uprooted from their Hampshire farm in 1850 and thrown together on an emigrant ship with 38 distressed needlewomen from London. How they came to be on the boat, and what happened on the high seas and afterwards in Australia, is a vivid tale of family ambitions and fears, successes and catastrophes.

In Lost Relations, historian Graeme Davison follows in his family's footsteps, from the picture-postcard village of Newnham to a prison cell in Maitland, from a London slum to a miner's tent in Castlemaine.

He takes us back into worlds now largely forgotten, of water-powered mills, free selectors and Methodist evangelists. The Hewett's were not famous or distinguished, but their story reveals much about the foundations of Australia. (back cover)

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