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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  211
• Lot Description:
  Clacy, Ellen, née Sturmer. A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia, in 1852-53
  Written on the Spot by Mrs. Charles Clacy.Duodecimo, engraved frontispiece (after the author), a few marks and stains, early marbled boards and half calf. London, Hurst and Blackett, 1853.
• Notes:
  First edition of one of the classics of gold rush literature, the most vivid account of daily life on the goldfields ever published, and the first eye-witness account of the diggings written by a woman (and for several years the only one). It was “written on the spot” at the Victorian diggings, where Ellen Sturmer kept house for her brother and a small party as they moved from one field to another. This genteel young daughter of a clergyman, against all convention, accompanied her brother on a wild, daring escapade. She married one of her party, Charles Clacy, and returned with him to England, where she also published several novels and collections of fiction, one of which was based on her Australian experience. Ferguson, 8280.
• Estimate:
  A$160 - 240
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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