Anya: Countess of Adelaide by Judith Armstrong

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker.

Agnes (Anya) Rasp, wife of the man who discovered the fabulous silver-rich lodes of Broken Hill, is a victim of a false and malicious story.

This factional biography corrects the damage and weaves an imaginative life story of the pretty and ambitious German waitress whose marriage to one of the founders of BHP endows her with huge wealth and social position.

Later, the widowed Agnes Rasp, marries a European aristocrat and throughout the dark days of WWI, She dreams of returning from Germany as the Countess of Adelaide. (back cover)