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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 The Foundling : A Tale of the Burra Burra Mine
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Notes

  • Epigraph: Let your song be delicate.
    Sing no loud hymn:
    Death is abroad...oh, the black season!
    the deep - the dim!
    John Shaw Neilson, Song be Delicate

  • Dedication: For Roger

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Kew, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Shalimar Press , 1999 .
      Extent: 341p.
      ISBN: 0958646627
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Foundling Mary Talbot Cross , Croydon : Green Hill Publishing , 2024 28909176 2024 selected work novel 'Contains two titles previously published separately. THE FOUNDLING. Abandoned as a baby, taunted as a child, Julia Stephen, the foundling of the title, learns to survive in the West Country of England until her adoptive Methodist family sets sail for South Australia in the earliest years of European settlement, in search of a better life. Necessity takes them north, to work for the South Australian Mining Association of the Burra Burra, whose regime rates the workforce far below the appeal of profi ts. When Julia settles in the Company township called Kooringa, her past returns to haunt her. Who is the mysterious packman from Julia's Devon childhood who follows her through the streets of Kooringa township? What is the grim secret she uncovers in the dank squalor of a dugout in the Burra Burra Creek? FORTUNE'S FOOL. Ballarat in the goldrush of the early 1850s. A place of glittering promise and deep despair; where hidden resentments will swell into open rebellion against the colonial government in December 1854. Into this male-dominated sex-starved shantytown comes Miss Julia Stephen, seeking her Cornish lover. Quick-witted, resourceful and unscrupulous, she becomes one of the most successful women on the Victorian diggings. When tensions erupt into bloody rebellion at Eureka, Julia Stephen's life is transformed beyond her wildest dreams.' (Publication summary) Croydon : Green Hill Publishing , 2024
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Works about this Work

Foundling Chases Fortune Sandy Murray , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 May 1999; (p. 21)
— Review of The Foundling : A Tale of the Burra Burra Mine Mary Talbot Cross , 1999 single work novel
Foundling Chases Fortune Sandy Murray , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 May 1999; (p. 21)
— Review of The Foundling : A Tale of the Burra Burra Mine Mary Talbot Cross , 1999 single work novel
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Subjects:
  • Adelaide Hills, Adelaide, South Australia,
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
Settings:
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
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