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category: History
published: Sep 2002
ISBN:9780920663790
publisher: TouchWood Editions

Voyages of Hope

The Saga of the Bride-Ships

by Peter Johnson

tagged: pre-confederation (to 1867)
Description

A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new husband. Why did these women leave everything behind in England and come to the west coast? The answers lie in the lusty turmoil of a gold-rush frontier, the horrible disruptions of industrial England and the conflicting aims of earnest Christians and early British feminists.

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Peter Johnson

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