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Iron House by Crescy Cannan (Paperback, 2013)

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Jane Cannan's delicate sketches of mid-nineteenth century houses are collected in Australia's National Library and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, but who was she? From a cosmopolitan background, and growing up in England's literary Lake District, Jane escaped a tedious life of provincial spinsterhood by marrying a younger Scotsman with a posting to Australia. His firm, Morewood & Rogers, was one of several exporting ingenious prefabricated iron buildings to Britain's colonies. Jane's lively letters describe her journey to Melbourne by sailing ship, her reactions to seeing a city grow amid the turbulence of the gold-rush, the pressure on young men from 'distressed' middle-class backgrounds to make their fortunes in boom and bust times, and her experience of life in a tiny corrugated iron house. Jane's drawings record contemporary buildings and vistas, capture a nostalgia for picturesque, rustic cottages during a time of upheaval, and anticipate the new world of suburbia.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Bugloss Publishing
ISBN-13
9780957404601
eBay Product ID (ePID)
139997766

Product Key Features

Book Title
Iron House
Author
Crescy Cannan
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
190 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
230mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
441g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Crescy Cannan
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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