Delia's Journey - Russell Clark, Caroline
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This is a biography of a Yorkshire family in the early 19th century, struggling in the debates and turmoil of the period. It's a bottom-up history, not top-down, showing how family life determines responses to financial hardship, political unrest and religious discrimination. The pressures of everyday living led an entire family of three generations to migrate across the oceans in 1840 to start a new life in Australia. This is a book that speaks to the distinctiveness of this era but also the universal themes of family, love and change.

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Produktbeschreibung
This is a biography of a Yorkshire family in the early 19th century, struggling in the debates and turmoil of the period. It's a bottom-up history, not top-down, showing how family life determines responses to financial hardship, political unrest and religious discrimination. The pressures of everyday living led an entire family of three generations to migrate across the oceans in 1840 to start a new life in Australia. This is a book that speaks to the distinctiveness of this era but also the universal themes of family, love and change.
Autorenporträt
Caroline read History at the new University of Kent at Canterbury. She served 7 years retail employment in the fashion business and then developed her family life as the mother of 5 children. She followed voluntary work in youth and sports work with paid development of both Lambeth Independent Sport's Association and Wandsworth Childminders' Association. After this foray into local government support work she joined the education department first as a learning mentor and later as a qualified primary teacher. On the birth of her third grandson she promised him she would write him a story of his Australian forbears in Delia's Journey. She learnt about internet research and followed up genealogical websites and secondary sources in books and libraries. She is now researching a different socio-economic family during the same time period - and looking after her 8th grandson once a week.