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Manuscript commonplace book of Georgiana McCrae

Place
Melbourne
Subject
Category
Keywords
Painters
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Item number
RB 1164.6
Access rights
Request at location
Country of origin
Language
Period of reference
1830 to 1890
Description from source
103 pages, paper ink handwritten. Three-quarter bound in black calf with marbled paper over boards and endpapers.

A small exercise book of 103 pages, numbered consecutively by the diarist and completely filled with extracts from her reading. The pages are closely written transcriptions from the writings of Scott, Wordsworth, Shelley, Carlyle, Milton, Disraeli, and others. Some selections from Lamartine are written in French.
Physical format
Notebook
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