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Issue Details: First known date: 1867... 1867 The Early Start in Life
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'Follows the fortunes of Alexander Stirling, who brings his brothers and sisters (and their servants) to New South Wales after his parents' death. The young people set about making a farm...the novel is a romanticised account of pioneering...' (Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature).

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