Station Life in New ZealandStation Life in New Zealand
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Her first book, Station Life in New Zealand (1870), ia a sparkling series of letters home. This “exact account of a lady's experience of the brighter and less practical side of colonization … the adventures and emergencies diversifying the life of a wife of a New Zealand sheepfarmer” was apparently based upon actual letters to her young sister Jessie, for the authoress noted that “each was written while the novelty and excitement of the scenes it describes were still fresh upon her”.The book went through several editions and was translated into French and German. Much of its attraction comes from its intimate style, with the author's affectionate asides to her sister, family references, and enclosures for “the boys” in England. Its racy narrative is a brilliant though apparently artless piece of writing. Not only is the book packed with domestic details such as the price of coal, cab fares in Christchurch, breadmaking, or the problem of servants, but it also contains exhilarating tales of boar hunts, boundary rides, mustering, drafting, shearing, camping out, and expeditions after wild cattle.
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- [New York] : Project Gutenberg, 2010.
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