{"product_id":"2026100008485-secondhand-georgianas-journal-melbourne-a-hundred-years-ago","title":"Georgiana's Journal: Melbourne A Hundred Years Ago","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Fair to Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed with some foxing. Markings: No markings. Binding: aged; faded and frayed spine; bumped and rubbed corners. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA remarkable primary source document of colonial Australian life, Georgiana's Journal presents the intimate diary entries of Georgiana McCrae, a trained artist and gentlewoman who settled in Port Phillip (Melbourne) in the 1840s. Edited and compiled by her grandson, the poet Hugh McCrae, the journal chronicles day-to-day existence on the colonial frontier with vivid, candid detail — capturing the social customs, landscapes, and personalities of a city in its earliest years. The narrative illustrates the contrasts of refined European sensibility transplanted into a raw and emerging settlement, offering a rare female perspective on a pivotal era in Victorian history. Both an invaluable historical record and an engaging personal memoir, it remains one of the most cherished documents of early Melbourne life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956144189659,"sku":"2026100008485-SECONDHAND","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/af97865a-ff6e-4e27-af2d-0cbd2ab17c21.png?v=1783498357","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008485-secondhand-georgianas-journal-melbourne-a-hundred-years-ago","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}