AustLit

Life, history and romance of a motherless English girl, orphaned with her brother after their father's death. A little wild, she had rebelled strongly against her step-mother and had taken the opportunity of a 100 pound inheritance to emigrate to Australia. She is befriended by a kindly gentleman at Liverpool before she leaves and by a lady on the voyage out who cares for her for a while then assists her to gain a position as governess. Five years after her arrival she fulfils a promise to write to the kind stranger at Liverpool. A year elapses before his reply, letters are exchanged, romance blossoms, and he arrives in Victoria to claim her as his bride. Sense of a naive dreaming spirit befriended by luck. (PB)