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Issue Details: First known date: 1886... 1886 The Golden Land, or, Links From Shore to Shore
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In England, Herbert Spencer struggles to support his five children after the death of his wife. When a letter arrives from Herbert's long-lost brother in Australia, it seems that their fortunes might be about to change. Will they travel to Australia and start a new life on a cattle station? And will their beloved Uncle David be able to join them? The Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature notes that 'much of the book is taken up with the family's life in England and the voyage to the Colony. They arrive in Melbourne and set out through the bush via the gold-diggings for a property on the Murray River' (161).

Notes

  • H.M Saxby notes in A History of Australian Children's Literature 1841-1941: 'The womenfolk in these pioneering days never seemed to miss an opportunity to add their softening influence on the crude bush ways. Eleanor, in B.L. Farjeon's The Golden Land (1886) even spreads a "snow-white tablecloth" on the ground for the family's tin pannikins and plates, and produces a cake of scented soap and a towel in this same setting' (33).
  • Users are warned that this work contains terminology that reflects attitudes or language used at the time of publication that are considered inappropriate today.

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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Ward, Lock ,       1886 .
      Extent: 344p.
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      Americas,      :       Melbourne, Victoria,: Ward, Lock ,       1890 .
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      Extent: 344, [28] platesp.
      Edition info: 2nd ed.
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      • Engraved by Edmund Evans.
      • Digitised by AustLit, 2009, from the collection of the NLA.
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Works about this Work

From Canvas Town to Marvellous Melbourne : Melbourne in Colonial Children's Novels Pam Macintyre , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: La Trobe Library Journal , Spring no. 60 1997; (p. 74-83)
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Subjects:
  • Bush,
  • Murray River, Pinjarra - North Dandalup - Waroona area, Mandurah - Harvey area, Far Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
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