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    A Gilded Mile

    By Fay Anderson

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    A Gilded Mile is a novel about the merchants, manufacturers and entrepreneurs who created Melbourne’s Golden Mile. The Rose-Levin family were among thousands of immigrants to arrive in Melbourne in 1849 intent on making their fortunes. Like immigrants throughout the ages, they worked hard and lived frugally in the hope of making better lives for themselves and their families, but they also showed unusual compassion by fostering two abandoned children.
    The novel is set in Melbourne, a tiny settlement in a remote British colony that within fifty years was larger than most European capitals, with towering office buildings that rivalling New York and London and a public transport system that was among the largest and most modern in the world.
    It also had slums that were compared with those of Calcutta, a death rate from typhoid that was nearly double that of other Australian cities and an infant mortality rate higher than that of London.
    Offering the highest wages in the world, Melbourne was hailed as a working man’s paradise, whereas single women and widows were often forced into prostitution through poverty and homeless children were jailed for vagrancy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFay Anderson
    Release dateFeb 21, 2014
    ISBN9780992440701
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    A Gilded Mile
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    Fay Anderson

    I was born and educated in rural Victoria and lived most of my working life in and around Melbourne with my husband, John. We have now retired and live near Bairnsdale in eastern Victoria. Following a lifetime of avid reading, I came to writing by accident – literally – as a painful back injury precluded many other activities. Writing, like many other crafts, requires a great deal of practice but finding creative exercises tiresome without the relief of a long term project, I envisaged an Australian saga, telling the social history of Victoria through the interlinking stories of three families over three generations. Eight years and many many hours later, I have built two mini tug boats, written an historical novel, two parts of the historical trilogy and am busily researching for the third and last.

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