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The Australians #1.1
De landsforviste
Den første bog i den spændende og dramatiske beretning om Australiens kolonisation – et land af blod, passion og drømme.
De var fra England – tyve, forbrydere, mordere, nogle retfærdigt dømt mens andre var uskyldige. De var menneskelig skibslast, hvis skæbne blev at skabe et liv i den brutale australske vildmark. De var mast sammen i de trange rum på Hendes Majestæts skibe under den farlige rejse over det iskolde, ubeboede Antarktis, til Tasmanien og videre til Kaptajn Cooks ankerplads i Botany Bay.
Det var en forfærdelig og voldsom skæbne for den 15-årige Jenny Taggart, som var blevet uskyldig dømt for tyveri. Hun blev revet væk fra alle hun elskede, et smukt barn iblandt hærdede fanger, uden erfaring om hvordan hun skulle kæmpe for sin overlevelse.
Vil der være en fremtid for hende i dette ukendte land, eller vil hun bukke under for presset i sit nye brutale liv?
De var fra England – tyve, forbrydere, mordere, nogle retfærdigt dømt mens andre var uskyldige. De var menneskelig skibslast, hvis skæbne blev at skabe et liv i den brutale australske vildmark. De var mast sammen i de trange rum på Hendes Majestæts skibe under den farlige rejse over det iskolde, ubeboede Antarktis, til Tasmanien og videre til Kaptajn Cooks ankerplads i Botany Bay.
Det var en forfærdelig og voldsom skæbne for den 15-årige Jenny Taggart, som var blevet uskyldig dømt for tyveri. Hun blev revet væk fra alle hun elskede, et smukt barn iblandt hærdede fanger, uden erfaring om hvordan hun skulle kæmpe for sin overlevelse.
Vil der være en fremtid for hende i dette ukendte land, eller vil hun bukke under for presset i sit nye brutale liv?
255 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 4, 2022
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Vivian Stuart
131 books12 followersSee also V.A. Stuart.
Violet Vivian Finlay was born on 2 January 1914 in Berkshire, England, UK, the daughter of Alice Kathleen (née Norton) and Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay. Her father was the owner and director of Burmah Oil Company Ltd., whose Scottish family also owned James Finlay and Company Ltd. The majority of her childhood and youth was spent in Rangoon, Burma (now also known as Myanmar), where her father worked. During her life, she frequently journeyed between India, Singapore, Java and Sumatra.
Although Vivian is well-known by the surname of Stuart, she married four times during her lifetime, and had five children: Gillian Rushton (née Porch), Kim Santow, Jennifer Gooch (née Stuart), and twins Vary and Valerie Stuart.
Following the dissolution of her first marriage, she studied for a time Law in London in the mid 1930s, before decided studied Medicine at the University of London. Later she spent time in Hungary in the capacity of private tutor in English, while she obtained a pathologist qualification at the University of Budapest in 1938. In 1939, she emigrated to Australia with her second husband, a Hungarian Doctor Geza Santow with whom she worked. In 1942, she obtained a diploma in industrial chemistry and laboratory technique at Technical Institute of Newcastle. Having earned an ambulance driver's certificate, she joined the Australian Forces at the Women's Auxiliary Service during World War II. She was attached to the IVth Army, and raised to the rank of sergeant, she was posted to British XIV Army in Rangoon, Burma in October 1945, and was then transferred to Sumatra in December. After the WWII, she returned to England. On 24 October 1958, she married her fourth and last husband, Cyril William Mann, a bank manager.
She was a prolific writer from 1953 to 1986 under diferent pseudonyms: Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V. A. Stuart, William Stuart Long and Robyn Stuart. Many of her novels were protagonized by doctors or nurses, and set in Asia, Australia or other places she had visited. Her romance novel, Gay Cavalier published in 1955 as Alex Stuart got her into trouble with her Mills & Boon editors when she featured a secondary story line featuring a Catholic male and Protestant female who chose to marry. This so-called "mixed marriage" touched nerves in the United Kingdom.
In 1960, she was a founder of the Romantic Novelists' Association, along with Denise Robins, Barbara Cartland, and others; she was elected the first Chairman (1961-1963). In 1970, she became the first woman to chair Swanwick Writers' Summer School.
Violet Vivian Finlay Porch Santow Stuart Mann passed away on August 1986 in Yorkshire, at age 72. She continued writing until her death.
Violet Vivian Finlay was born on 2 January 1914 in Berkshire, England, UK, the daughter of Alice Kathleen (née Norton) and Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay. Her father was the owner and director of Burmah Oil Company Ltd., whose Scottish family also owned James Finlay and Company Ltd. The majority of her childhood and youth was spent in Rangoon, Burma (now also known as Myanmar), where her father worked. During her life, she frequently journeyed between India, Singapore, Java and Sumatra.
Although Vivian is well-known by the surname of Stuart, she married four times during her lifetime, and had five children: Gillian Rushton (née Porch), Kim Santow, Jennifer Gooch (née Stuart), and twins Vary and Valerie Stuart.
Following the dissolution of her first marriage, she studied for a time Law in London in the mid 1930s, before decided studied Medicine at the University of London. Later she spent time in Hungary in the capacity of private tutor in English, while she obtained a pathologist qualification at the University of Budapest in 1938. In 1939, she emigrated to Australia with her second husband, a Hungarian Doctor Geza Santow with whom she worked. In 1942, she obtained a diploma in industrial chemistry and laboratory technique at Technical Institute of Newcastle. Having earned an ambulance driver's certificate, she joined the Australian Forces at the Women's Auxiliary Service during World War II. She was attached to the IVth Army, and raised to the rank of sergeant, she was posted to British XIV Army in Rangoon, Burma in October 1945, and was then transferred to Sumatra in December. After the WWII, she returned to England. On 24 October 1958, she married her fourth and last husband, Cyril William Mann, a bank manager.
She was a prolific writer from 1953 to 1986 under diferent pseudonyms: Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V. A. Stuart, William Stuart Long and Robyn Stuart. Many of her novels were protagonized by doctors or nurses, and set in Asia, Australia or other places she had visited. Her romance novel, Gay Cavalier published in 1955 as Alex Stuart got her into trouble with her Mills & Boon editors when she featured a secondary story line featuring a Catholic male and Protestant female who chose to marry. This so-called "mixed marriage" touched nerves in the United Kingdom.
In 1960, she was a founder of the Romantic Novelists' Association, along with Denise Robins, Barbara Cartland, and others; she was elected the first Chairman (1961-1963). In 1970, she became the first woman to chair Swanwick Writers' Summer School.
Violet Vivian Finlay Porch Santow Stuart Mann passed away on August 1986 in Yorkshire, at age 72. She continued writing until her death.
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May 2, 2024
Hela denna första bok går åt till att berätta historien om HUR Jenny kom att bli förvisad till Australien. Spännande, men en aning långdraget. Hoppas på mer "action" i kommande delar, som jag med nyfikenhet ser fram emot att läsa.
January 10, 2025
Rimelig ok. Giver god indsigt i denne tidsperiode i England og om de første kolonister Australien. Mangler klart spænding, og den kan være lidt forudsigelig til tider.
August 3, 2023
Det här känns absolut som en serie i min smak. Lite utvandrarna-känsla, fast med Australien som mål. Första delen fokuserar på resan till straffkolonin i Australien och på att lära känna karaktärerna. Huvudpersonen, Jenny Taggart, känns absolut som en karaktär som kommer att vara enkel att känna sympati för och som man vill följa. Jag kommer att fortsätta att läsa (eller snarare lyssna) på denna serie med stort intresse.
June 22, 2023
Jeg må indrømme at jeg nyder denne bog trods det at den er en rigtig ugebladsroman. Kærlighed, drama, og masser af uretfærdighed for vores heltinde som på alle måder er uovertruffen og agtværdig. Når det så er sagt så er den spændende og der er fart over handlingen.
February 18, 2023
Så seg och långtråkig bok att det inte var klokt trots att den inte är på så många sidor! Inga karaktärer att fästa sig vid. Avslutade inte boken, orkade endast med halva....
June 13, 2023
Dårlig og udansk oversættelse
December 26, 2024
Hyggelæsning der giver en enkelt historisk indsigt i Australiens tilblivelse
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