Spence, Eleanor.

The Switherby pilgrims / Eleanor Spence ; Illustrated by Corinna Gray - London : Oxford University Press, 1967. - 170 pages : 22 cm Illustrations ;

In 1825, concerned for the future of her ten orphan charges in the grim factory towns of their native England, Miss Arabella Braithewaite, known to the children as Missabella, decides to take a land grant in Australia and makes the long, daunting journey with her wards to the austere bush country of New South Wales.

188393799X (pbk. : acidfree paper)

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Orphans--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.


Australia--History--1788-1851--Fiction.

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