To Begin the World Anew

To Begin the World Anew

How Particular Nobodies Made Australia

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Book Details

Weight 856 g
Dimensions 21.5 × 21 × 2.5 cm

About The Author

Otzen (Roslyn)

Roslyn Otzen, an educator and former Principal of Korowa AGS, completed her PhD. thesis on the early Melbourne City Mission, and served a term on the MCM Board. She became the inaugural Chair of the Hester Hornbrook Academy Board. She still studies the MCM’s early days, and especially the work of its women, whose own lives have been a closed book, until on-line access to records of the past have enabled their recovery. She has published several histories, including a biography of Dr John Singleton, another founder of the MCM.

All Europeans coming to the Australian continent were challenged to begin their world anew, whether it was a First Fleet Marine’s widow, a man convicted of High Treason, a Scottish prostitute, a Dane avoiding conscription into the Prussian army or a gold-rush family.

Those in this book were ordinary people taking on extraordinary challenges. What were they leaving behind? Why and how did they arrive? What then …?

All in this book suffered extravagant turns of fate, and their descendants – the author’s family – are alive to tell their tales. Fiction was never this gripping, surprising, harrowing