Colonial frontiers and family fortunes
Biography & Memoir History Australiana
Colonial Frontiers and Family Fortunes brings together five respected Australian historians—Jane Beer, Charles Fahey, Patricia Grimshaw, Melanie Raymond and Jane Marjorie—to trace how settler families carved livelihoods on Victoria’s colonial edges. Their 1989 collaborative study blends biography with broader social history, offering an intimate yet authoritative window on nineteenth-century Australian frontier life.
Richly illustrated and published by The University of Melbourne, this vintage paperback spotlights convicts, migrants and Indigenous encounters while mapping the economic and emotional stakes of empire-building. Students and enthusiasts of Australian history, education and reference will appreciate the scholarly depth packaged in readable true-story narrative.
The 1989 first edition remains solid for its age: pages are crisp, clean and unmarked, with only light spotting near the title on the front cover and a small stain inside the front board. From a smoke-free home, it presents well on the shelf and is ready for immediate reading or research.
An accessible, search-friendly addition to any collection focused on colonial Australia, Victorian history or family fortunes forged on colonial frontiers.
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