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    A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 (Abridged): An ESL Easy Read
    A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 (Abridged): An ESL Easy Read
    A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 (Abridged): An ESL Easy Read
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    A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 (Abridged): An ESL Easy Read

    By Clare Harris

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    Ellen Clacy was 20 years old when she and her brother travelled from England to the Australian goldfields in 1852. This was at the start of the ‘gold rush’, when thousands of people from around the world were arriving at the gold ‘diggings’. Ellen went back to England in 1853, and her book about her adventures became a huge success.
    This is a short, Easy-Read adaptation of Ellen Clacy’s best-selling book. It uses Australian/British English spelling. Level: Upper Intermediate.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClare Harris
    Release dateMay 26, 2014
    ISBN9781922191113
    A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 (Abridged): An ESL Easy Read
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    Clare Harris

    Clare Harris lives in Perth, Western Australia (one of the most isolated cities in the world!). Writing ESL readers draws on her three favourite things: writing, teaching English and drinking coffee.Clare has taught English as a volunteer tutor in the UK, as a migrant English teacher in Australia, in refugee camps in Thailand, and in workplaces and factories. Now she publishes ESL materials at The Book Next Door and here, online.Her little (but always taller) sister Emma Laybourn is a children’s author (Megamouse Books).

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      A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 (Abridged) - Clare Harris

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53:

      An ESL Easy Read

      by Mrs Charles (Ellen) Clacy, abridged by Clare Harris

      Smashwords Edition ISBN: 978 1 922191 11 3

      Edited by Sally Odgers

      Text of this version copyright © 2014 by Clare Harris

      Published by The Book Next Door

      Cover and layout copyright © 2014 by The Book Next Door

      Cover art from the painting An Australian Gold Diggings, 1855, by Edwin Stockqueler, now in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons).

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved. This is an abridged, easy-read version of the original 1853 book by Mrs Charles (Ellen) Clacy, now in the public domain. This abridged version, or parts of this version, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

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      INTRODUCTION

      Ellen Clacy was 20 years old when she and her brother travelled from England to the Australian goldfields in 1852. This was at the start of the ‘gold rush’, when thousands of people from around the world were arriving at the gold ‘diggings’. In just a few years, from 1851 to 1854, the population of the colony of Victoria jumped from 80,000 to 300,000.

      Ellen did not stay in Australia. She went back to England, and her book about her travels to the goldfields and her adventures there was published in 1853. It became a huge success.

      This is a short, Easy-Read adaptation of Ellen Clacy’s best-selling book. It uses Australian/British English spelling.

      BEFORE YOU READ

      Things to know about language:

      In this book, ‘The Colonies’ refers to Australia. At that time it was not one independent country, but was made up of six British colonies.

      A gold-washing cradle was like a large wooden box with two sieves, used to separate gold from dirt and water.

      A digger was someone who was digging for gold. (Much later, during the 1914-18 World War, this word was used to mean an Australian or New Zealand soldier, though now it just refers to an Australian soldier.)

      Bushrangers were robbers who lived in the ‘bush’ out of town. They were a serious danger to the diggers.

      This is an easy-read version of Ellen’s story, but it uses a lot of Ellen’s own language. Some of this is a little old-fashioned. Ellen also repeated ‘non-standard’ English when she heard people saying things like ‘we can’t cook nothink’ or ‘I makes them too’. This language is shown with an asterisk * next to it. You can check the modern ‘Standard Australian English’ at the end of the book.

      In 1853, when Ellen married Mr Charles Clacy, it was the custom to call her ‘Mrs Charles Clacy’. So the book is ‘by Mrs Charles (Ellen) Clacy’.

      Things to know about measurements:

      Distance is described in miles. (1 mile = approx. 1.6 kilometres.)

      Weight is given in pounds and

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