Publisher's Synopsis
From a cosmopolitan background, and growing up in England's literary Lake District, Jane Cannan escaped a tedious life of provincial spinsterhood by marrying a younger Scotsman with a posting to Australia. Drawing on Jane's witty letters, we read of her journey to Melbourne by sailing ship, her reactions to seeing a city grow amid the turbulence of the gold-rush, and her experience of life in a tiny corrugated iron house.
