McCrae - Manuscript commonplace book

Item

Title
McCrae - Manuscript commonplace book
Subject
Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
Immigrants--Australia--History
Writing and art
Frontier and pioneer life--Australia
Poetry
Victoria--History
Melbourne (Vic.)
Category
1. Settlement
Author
McCrae, Georgiana Huntly Gordon
Person
McCrae, Georgiana Huntly
Current holder
The University of Sydney
Period of reference 
1830 – 1890
Link
https://sydney.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/61USYD_INST/1c0ug48/alma991001249279705106
Access rights
Request at location
Rights 
Out of Copyright
Country of origin
Australia
Place
Melbourne
Language 
English
French
Description from source
103 pages, paper ink handwritten. Includes: Manuscript of a commonplace book, containing transcripts of extracts from her reading.

Fisher Library Rare Books and Special Collections copy has bookplate: "Harry F. Chaplin".
Three-quarter bound in black calf with marbled paper over boards and endpapers.

A small exercise book of 103 pages, numbered consecutively by the diarist and completely filled with extracts from her reading. The pages are closely written transcriptions from the writings of Scott, Wordsworth, Shelley, Carlyle, Milton, Disraeli, and others. Some selections from Lamartine are written in French.
Physical format
Manuscripts
Diaries
Related resources 
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