Oh Happy Day: Those Times and These Times by Carmen Callil
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Oh Happy Day: Those Times and These Times by Carmen Callil

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9.78022E+12
Author: Carmen Callil
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2020
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368 pages
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Scratch to back cover from price sticker removal, now covered with book tape.

In this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginning with her great-great-grandmother Sary Lacey, born illegitimate in 1808, an impoverished stocking frame worker in Leicestershire. Through detailed research, we follow Sary from slum to tenement and from pregnancy to pregnancy.

We also meet George Conquest, a canal worker and the father of one of Sary's children. George was sentenced for stealing a piece of hemp to seven years' transportation to Australia, where he faced the extraordinary brutality of convict life.

Meanwhile, Mary Ann Brooks and her father, John, a silversmith, travel across the seas from Lincolnshire to escape the Workhouse and life as a skivvy. But for George, as for so many destitute and disenfranchised British people like him, Australia turned out to be his Happy Day. He survived, prospered and eventually returned to England, where he met Sary again after nearly thirty years. He brought her out to Australia, and they were never parted again.

Carmen Callil not only reclaims from obscurity the lives of these ordinary men and women who were sent to Australia as convicts or domestic servants but also draws telling parallels for our own times. Oh Happy Day is a moving story of poverty, social injustice, Empire and migration. (back cover)

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