Turner's Margate Through Contemporary Eyes - The Viney Letters - Channing, Stephen Michael
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Surprisingly, one of the best sources of information on life in Margate in the early 19th century was a little town in Australia. Stewart Viney had attended school and later worked in Margate, living just a few doors away from where the artist Turner was staying with his mistress Mrs Booth, but then joined the Bendigo Gold Rush. Finding only mixed fortune there, he progressed into journalism and produced many fascinating articles about the place where he had grown up and the people who had surrounded him. These have been fortunately rediscovered and edited into a single volume of great interest to local people and social historians alike.…mehr

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Surprisingly, one of the best sources of information on life in Margate in the early 19th century was a little town in Australia. Stewart Viney had attended school and later worked in Margate, living just a few doors away from where the artist Turner was staying with his mistress Mrs Booth, but then joined the Bendigo Gold Rush. Finding only mixed fortune there, he progressed into journalism and produced many fascinating articles about the place where he had grown up and the people who had surrounded him. These have been fortunately rediscovered and edited into a single volume of great interest to local people and social historians alike.
Autorenporträt
Born and raised in the East End of London, Steve Channing gained a BA (Hons) in Social and Economic History at the University of Kent at age 44: a far cry from his normal occupation in the construction industry. It was through genealogy research that Steve came into contact with manyapparently undiscovered historical social gems, which he felt needed to be shared in book form.