A Parcel of Gold for Edith: Letters from Australia 1853-1875

Stevens, Joyce

ISBN 10: 1873855362 / ISBN 13: 9781873855362

Published by Hampshire, UK; John Owen Smith; 2001 reprinted with corrections 2002, 2001

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paperback in very good condition; 100 pages, b/w illusts.

Seller Inventory # 81899

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Parcel of Gold for Edith: Letters from Australia 1853-1875
• Publisher: Hampshire, UK; John Owen Smith; 2001 reprinted with corrections 2002
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1873855362
• ISBN 13: 9781873855362
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Local History and Genealogy

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Synopsis

This is the story of one of Australia’s Pioneer Women, who spent most of her life in the gold fields of Bendigo.In 1841, aged only 19, Ellen Suter fled poverty and squalor in the back-streets of Portsmouth and set off alone to live in the new colony of Victoria on the other side of the world.In Melbourne, she met and married James Read, a settler from Ipswich, Suffolk, more than twenty years her senior. Over the next 20 years she bore him fourteen children, only five of whom survived.Her story has been pieced together from the accidental discovery of seven letters written between 1853 and 1875 to her brother, William Suter, a papermaker in Headley, Hampshire.