At the height of the Victorian gold rush a young Englishwoman sailed to Melbourne and went up to the diggings with her brother’s party. She describes the voyage out, the crowded colonial capital, camping in the bush, and life at Bendigo, Mount Alexander and Forest Creek: the claims and cradles, the luck and losses, the rough camps and the few women who shared them.
A rare woman’s eyewitness account of the gold fields, written for the families at home who longed for news. Download the free EPUB.