Emigrant's Home Letters (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Henry Parkes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0483975869 ISBN 13: 9780483975866

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A moving collection of a family’s journey from poverty to far-off lands.

Emigrant's Home Letters presents Henry Parkes’s real letters that trace his emigration from England to Australia, revealing the hopes, hardships, and resilience of a family seeking a new life.

With an intimate preface and introduction, this edition lets you hear the voices behind the historical story: a young man’s reflections on travel, work, and the challenges of starting over in a distant colony. The letters cover the early years in London and Sydney, the daily realities of making do, and the bonds that kept a family close across oceans. Gentle humor and candid detail sit beside the grit of hardship, offering a window into 19th-century emigration and the making of a nation through personal letters.

• First-person accounts of life in Birmingham, London, and Sydney in the 1830s–1840s.
• Everyday struggles, family ties, and practical details of starting anew abroad.
• Context from a prefatory introduction that frames the letters’ significance.
• A historical portrait of ambition, perseverance, and the costs of migration.

Ideal for readers interested in family letters, migration history, and the early years of Australia, told through candid, preserving correspondence.

This edition makes the past feel immediate, inviting you to hear the voices of those who lived it.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0483975869
• ISBN 13: 9780483975866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 185