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Charles Dickens'' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859: Book Two: Immigration

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By (author): Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens is little celebrated as a journalist, yet his career spanned nearly 40 years. Starting as a court reporter, parliamentary newspaper columnist and theatre critic, he developed an instinct for injustice, humbug and charade. For 20 years he edited his own weekly journal, Household Words, later known as All the Year Round, publishing articles and stories designed to be interesting, entertaining and educational. Dickens had a keen interest in Australia and fortuitously began publishing the periodical at a transitional moment, just before the heady days of the 1850s gold rush set the world ablaze. The discovery of gold drove a period of mass immigration and expansion into the hinterlands, and caused radical economic and social changes in an emerging nation. Of the nearly 3,000 articles published in Household Words, some 100 related to Australia and have been collected in this anthology. Dickens saw Australia as offering opportunities for England's poor and downtrodden to make a new start and a brighter future for themselves; this optimism is reflected in many of the articles. The stories have been grouped into five volumes: Convict Stories, Immigration, Frontier Stories, Mining and Gold and Maritime Conditions. The stories in this volume examine important questions faced by prospective immigrants: how to prepare, what to take to Australia, how to recognise a suitable vessel to sail on, and where to go for advice before embarking on this life-changing adventure. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 320g
  • Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 03 May 2011
  • Publisher: Sydney University Press
  • Publication City/Country: Australia
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781920898687

About Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Margaret Mendelawitz is a graduate in history and anthropology from the University of Western Australia. She currently works as a mediator.

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