AustLit

Grandmother's reminiscences to her Australian grandchildren of her marriages, her convict husband and their grandfather. First married in Wales to a replacement school teacher, they journey to London on the way to Canada, and there she loses her husband on one of the new omnibuses. Convinced by a landlord that her husband is dead she accompanies a married couple to Australia. On the eve of marrying the later widowed husband (her audience's grandfather) she discovers her husband a convicted forger in Australia. He dies of his privations and she, after years of persuasion, finally marries her widowed suitor as arranged. Family tale; colourful, broad stokes. (PB)