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Voyages of Hope - The Saga of the Bride-Ships (Paperback, 1st ed)
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Voyages of Hope - The Saga of the Bride-Ships (Paperback, 1st ed)
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Discovery Miles 4 190
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Gleeful and noisy celebrations greeted several dozen nervous young
women when, after 99 tumultuous days at sea aboard the Tynemouth,
they stepped ashore in Victoria in September 1862. Immediately they
were faced with an ordeal of a different kind -- walking in single
file up the ceremonial pathway through a jostling crowd of
boisterous, eager men. One astonished young woman, proposed to on
the spot, accepted her suitor to the delighted cheers of the throng
and married him the next day. However, it took most of the
bride-ship women longer to find their new destinies. Why did these
women leave everything behind in England and come to the west coast
of Canada? The answers lie in the atrocious disruptions of
industrial Britain, the conflicting aims of earnest Christians and
early feminists, and the lusty turmoil of a gold-rush frontier. All
three elements shaped this complex and intriguing true story. The
hardships and happiness of Louisa and Charlotte Townsend, Isabel
Curtis, Jane Saunders, Emma Tammadge, Minnie Gillan and others who
left no records are brought to life in this book.
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