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An Englishwoman in California - The Letters of Catherine Hubback 1871-76 (Hardcover)
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An Englishwoman in California - The Letters of Catherine Hubback 1871-76 (Hardcover)
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A niece of Jane Austen and a novelist herself, Catherine Hubback
was fifty-two years old when she left England for America. She
travelled to California on the Transcontinental Railroad and
settled in Oakland, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. Her
son Edward shared her household and commuted by ferryboat to a
wheat brokerage in the City. In letters to her eldest son John and
his wife Mary in Liverpool, Catherine conveys her delight - and her
exasperation - at her new environment. She portrays her neighbours
with a novelist's wry wit and brings her English sensibility to
bear on gardening with unfamiliar plants and maintaining a proper
wardrobe in a dry climate. She writes vividly of her adventures as
she moves about a landscape recognizable to present-day residents,
at a time when boats rather than bridges spanned the bay, and hot
springs were the main attraction in the Napa Valley. In an
atmosphere of financial unrest, she writes freely of her anxieties,
while supplementing Edward's declining income by making lace and
teaching the craft to other women. She recalls her 'prosperous
days' in England, but finds pleasure in small things and assuredly
takes her place in a society marked by great disparities in wealth.
In addition to transcriptions of the letters, this highly readable
edition offers pertinent information on many of the people and
places mentioned, explanatory notes, and striking illustrations.
The introduction places the letters in context and tells the story
of Catherine Hubback, whose life evolved in ways unprecedented in
the Austen family.
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