The Raven at her Writing-Desk: Letters 1849-1889 of Amelia Louisa Vaux Gretton (née Le Mesurier, a.k.a. the Raven)

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dc.contributor.authorGretton, Amelia Louisa Vaux
dc.contributor.authorGretton, Emily
dc.date.issued2016-09-01
dc.description"This digital version of the 1890s typescript was edited by five of the Ravenʼs descendants in 2015-16. In the mid-1980s a great-great-granddaughter Priscilla Chenevix Trench (granddaughter of George Foster Gretton) made a photocopy of the original typescript (no longer to be found). She and three other great-great-grandchildren, siblings Edward Gretton, Hester Hawkes and Thomas Gretton (grandchildren of John Cunliffe Gretton), together with Emily Gretton, a great-great-great-granddaughter of the latter lineage, worked together to produce this edition. The introduction to this edition by Emily Gretton." This version of the texts of the letters copyright © Emily Frances Gretton 2016. For copyright inquiries please email emily@emilygretton.comen
dc.description.abstractThis is a story of love, terrible loss, family and faith. It is also a historical document. It spans the second half of the 19th century. It spans the oceans, by sail and by steam. In Australia Amelia casts a withering eye on early colonial society. In Italy she chronicles the life of an Anglo-Italian banking family against the background of the Risorgimento. And cholera. In Britain she engages with provincial society, the American civil war, the future career of Kaiser Bill, imperial expansion, education for the gentry and for the poor, sponsored emigration, church schisms, literary lions - and lionesses, socialist agitation, Irish terrorism, London fogs.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/100855
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectGretton familyen
dc.subjectAdelaide, South Australia - 19th century - Descriptionen
dc.subjectMelbourne, Victoria - 19th century - Descriptionen
dc.subjectSouth Australia - History - 19th century - Sourcesen
dc.subjectGretton, Amelia Louisa Vaux - Correspondence
dc.subjectItaly - 19th Century - description and travel
dc.titleThe Raven at her Writing-Desk: Letters 1849-1889 of Amelia Louisa Vaux Gretton (née Le Mesurier, a.k.a. the Raven)en
dc.typeBooken
dcterms.rightsHolderThis version of the texts of the letters copyright © Emily Frances Gretton 2016. For copyright inquiries please email emily@emilygretton.com

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