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A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 (Paperback)
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A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania
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Mrs Charles (Ellen) Clacy (1830-1901) was a clergyman's daughter
who, in 1852, travelled to the Australian goldfields. Published in
1853, on her return to England, this work, the first edition of
which sold out almost immediately, is essentially a guide for
prospective emigrants. It includes, within the lively narrative,
practical advice on the cost of living, the labour market,
gold-digging regulations, and marriage prospects. Mrs Clacy
published several subsequent books, but her life remains obscure.
Research suggests an illegitimate pregnancy or an absconding
husband, unmentioned in the upbeat and respectable narrative, but
possibly echoed by the highly coloured 'tale' of an anonymous
emigrant woman, whose lover (twice) leaves her pregnant at the
altar to go to the goldfields, with tragic consequences. However
this relates to Mrs Clacy's actual circumstances, her writing
vividly depicts the mixture of opportunity and hazard in
nineteenth-century Australia, illuminating the country's early
social history.
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