Abstract
In August 1856, Abraham and Hannah Booth, immigrants from Derbyshire, began a joint diary. For five years they recorded their thoughts and activities as settlers on the lower Loddon River, Victoria. No other diaries of Abraham and Hannah appear to have survived, but between 1884 and 1898 their children continued the tradition of writing a family diary in Melbourne and the Riverina district of New South Wales. This paper will examine aspects of the Booth family’s culture from their journals and will consider the genre of the open family diary in contrast to the private personal diary.This article has been peer-reviewed.
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