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Title: |
Voyages of Hope |
| Sub-title: |
The Saga of the Bride-Ships |
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| By (author): |
Peter Johnson |
| ISBN10-13: |
0920663796 : 9780920663790 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
190x139x22mm |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Weight: |
.262 Kg. |
| Published: |
Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd (CA) - September 2002 |
| List Price: |
16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Subjects: |
History of other lands : Social & cultural history : Migration, immigration & emigration : Canada |
| A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new husband. Why did these women leave everything behind in England and come to the west coast? The answers lie in the lusty turmoil of a gold-rush frontier, the horrible disruptions of industrial England and the conflicting aims of earnest Christians and early British feminists. |
| Reviews: |
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"Most of [the brides] did in fact marry, and some did very well for themselves." -- Family History Monthly, June 2004.
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