Helen Vellacott

Diary of a Lady's Maid

Government House in Colonial Australia

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Produktbeschreibung

The reliable, hard-working and loyal Emma Southgate began her diary when she journeyed across rough seas and under stormy skies from England to Australia in 1884 as lady's maid to Lady Loch, wife of the newly appointed Governor of Victoria. Through Emma's words we can relive the halcyon days of colonial times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Melbourne University
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9780522846980
• ISBN-10: 052284698X
• Artikelnr.: 47487229

Autorenporträt

Helen Vellacott, after living in Queensland, New South Wales and Cambridge, inherited an old family home classified by the National Trust in the historic town of Castlemaine. Her house looks across Forest Creek where thousands of diggers and prospectors made their fortunes-or lost them-in the 1850s. Helen, a war widow, is a keen book lover, and as well as rare books collects antique emroidery and patchwork quilts. She is the author of A Girl at Government House, The Australian Country Kitchen and Some Recollections of a Happy Life: Marion North in Australia and New Zealand.