{"product_id":"life-in-the-1830s-and-1840s","title":"Life in the 1830s and 1840s","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnnabella Boswell's journal - lovely illustrations throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a rare example of its kind − a series of journals begun by a teenage girl and continued into her twenties. Annabella Alexandra Campbell Innes was born in Australia in 1826 and married Patrick Boswell in 1856. Her journals and letters, most dating from 1843 (begun when she was 16 years old) to after her marriage are a rare example of a young woman’s personal writings from nineteenth-century regional Australia. Annabella Boswell’s journals conjure vividly the life of landed gentry in a newly colonised country with the honest eyes of a teenager\/young woman who had highly developed writing skills. Annabella was an accomplished artist. Most of her sketches were botanical in nature, probably reflecting her education which would have been influenced by her aunt Margaret Innes, daughter of Alexander Macleay (Colonial Secretary, former secretary of the Linnean Society in London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer drawings of plants and flowers mirror the plants and flowers (native and introduced) at various places she stayed, but especially at Lake Innes, where she lived with her widowed mother and her family at the home of her uncle Archibald Innes, Lake Innes House.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpine has some fading. Great lightly used condition. Inscription in front from 1989.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mount Vic and Me","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44276328923223,"sku":"7988 Life in the 1830s and 1840s Annabella Boswell","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/0954\/9911\/files\/annabella-boswell-2.jpg?v=1789372893","url":"https:\/\/mountvicandme.com\/products\/life-in-the-1830s-and-1840s","provider":"Mount Vic and Me","version":"1.0","type":"link"}