Georgiana's Journal: Melbourne A Hundred Years Ago
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed with some foxing. Markings: No markings. Binding: aged; faded and frayed spine; bumped and rubbed corners.
A remarkable primary source document of colonial Australian life, Georgiana's Journal presents the intimate diary entries of Georgiana McCrae, a trained artist and gentlewoman who settled in Port Phillip (Melbourne) in the 1840s. Edited and compiled by her grandson, the poet Hugh McCrae, the journal chronicles day-to-day existence on the colonial frontier with vivid, candid detail — capturing the social customs, landscapes, and personalities of a city in its earliest years. The narrative illustrates the contrasts of refined European sensibility transplanted into a raw and emerging settlement, offering a rare female perspective on a pivotal era in Victorian history. Both an invaluable historical record and an engaging personal memoir, it remains one of the most cherished documents of early Melbourne life.
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed with some foxing. Markings: No markings. Binding: aged; faded and frayed spine; bumped and rubbed corners.
A remarkable primary source document of colonial Australian life, Georgiana's Journal presents the intimate diary entries of Georgiana McCrae, a trained artist and gentlewoman who settled in Port Phillip (Melbourne) in the 1840s. Edited and compiled by her grandson, the poet Hugh McCrae, the journal chronicles day-to-day existence on the colonial frontier with vivid, candid detail — capturing the social customs, landscapes, and personalities of a city in its earliest years. The narrative illustrates the contrasts of refined European sensibility transplanted into a raw and emerging settlement, offering a rare female perspective on a pivotal era in Victorian history. Both an invaluable historical record and an engaging personal memoir, it remains one of the most cherished documents of early Melbourne life.
