A Victorian Engagement: Letters and Journals of Walter Hume and Anne Kate Fowler during the 1860s edited by Bertram Hume

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are still excellent.

A Victorian Engagement brings to life the experiences of many immigrants of the last century. The work is well illustrated with contemporary photographs of the people and places involved, and it is punctuated by explanatory, often humorous, editorial comment.

Kate Fowler, one of many who made the long voyage in a sailing ship from England to Australia in 1866, was at last on her way to meet her beloved Walter Hume, whom she had not seen for 4 years. The revelation of the growing intimacy between Walter and Katie, divertingly presented from both sides, is the book's central appeal.

Walter writes as a young man making his career in a distant country, but still closely involved with Katie and her family life at Totteridge House in England. Katie gives a lively account of herself and a dramatic picture of the challenge of travelling alone to an unknown country.

Walter Hume was to become one of the pioneers of surveying in Queensland and later had a distinguished record in Queensland government administration. (book flap)