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Elizabeth Ramsay-Laye Elizabeth Ramsay-Laye i(A19773 works by) (a.k.a. Mrs Elizabeth P. Laye; Elizabeth Patricia Ramsay-Laye; Elizabeth P. Ramsay-Laye)
Also writes as: Isabel Massary ; A Resident
Born: Established: 1832
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Scotland,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 1932 Kent,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1853 Departed from Australia: 1861
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1 Elizabeth Ramsey-Laye (1853) Elizabeth Ramsay-Laye , 2003 extract autobiography (Social Life and Manners in Australia : Being the Notes of Eight Years' Experience)
— Appears in: Venus in Transit : Australia's Women Travellers 1788 - 1930 2003; (p. 61-66)
1 y separately published work icon A Two Years' Folly, and Other Stories Elizabeth Ramsay-Laye , London : Grant Richards , 1916 Z1357352 1916 selected work short story
1 y separately published work icon Girl Life in Australia : A Description of Colonial Life A Resident , London : Rowland A. Elliott , 1876 Z1119187 1876 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon Our Cousins in Australia, or, Reminiscences of Sarah Norris Isabel Massary , Edinburgh London : W. P. Nimmo Simpkin , 1867 Z273302 1867 single work novel The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature ed. William H. Wilde (1994): 638 observes that the novel deals 'with urban middle-class families attempting to overcome the stigma of convict antecedents...In Our Cousins in Australia the Philipson family leads cousin Mark and Christina Dare into immoral behaviour and, eventually, financial ruin. In this case the Philipsons, whose parents are both former convicts, are irrevocably degenerate and carry the additional burden of Jewishness.'
2 1 y separately published work icon Social Life in Sydney; or, Colonial Experience : An Australian Tale Isabel Massary , Edinburgh London : Grant Simpkin, Marshall , 1866 Z270736 1866 single work novel The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature ed. William H. Wilde et. al. (1994): 638 says it deals 'with urban middle-class families attempting to overcome the stigma of convict antecedents; in Social Life in Sydney the brother and sister Margaret and Gerald Bright make their way in Sydney society through many reversals of fortune. Margaret marries Edmund Milner and leads a life of comfortable seclusion which is disrupted by the return of her convict father. Gerald prospers in business but is led into questionable speculation by Phryn, Milner's discredited clerk. The saintly Margaret dies in a bushfire while fulfilling her duty to her father, but Gerald repairs the family's fortune and wins happiness and respect.'
1 y separately published work icon Social Life and Manners in Australia : Being the Notes of Eight Years' Experience Elizabeth Ramsay-Laye , London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts , 1861 Z1060000 1861 single work autobiography travel The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature ed. William H. Wilde et. al. (1994): 638 comments: 'This work presents a lively, optimistic picture of life on the diggings and in Melbourne which is explicitly addressed to women readers.'
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