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Charles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859
Book Five: Maritime Conditions
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Charles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859
Tells stories about the unsafe, damp and cramped living conditions at sea endured by emigrants and sailors alike. It highlights the need to improve the desperate conditions and the need for a faster route for ships to travel. There is also a whaling story that paints a vivid picture of a whale chase in the hazardous waters south of Hobart.
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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, expansion into the hinterlands, and caused radical economic and social changes in an emerging nation. Of the nearly 3000 articles published in Household Words, some 100 related to Australia and have been collected in this anthology. Dickens saw Australia offering opportunities for England's poor and downtrodden to make a new start and a brighter future for themselves; optimism 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.
Book Five: Maritime Conditions - This volume has stories about the unsafe, damp and cramped living conditions at sea endured by emigrants and sailors alike. The articles highlight the need to improve the desperate conditions and the need for a faster route for ships to travel. There is also a whaling story that paints a vivid picture of a whale chase in the hazardous waters south of Hobart.
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ISBN: 9781920899264
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 May 2011
Country: Australia
Imprint: Sydney University Press
Illustration: 9 b&w ill.
Contributors:
- Compiled by Margaret Mendelawitz
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 11.0mm
Width: 148.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 190g
Pages: 106
About the Author
Margaret Mendelawitz is a graduate in history and anthropology from the University of Western Australia.
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