From Ragged London to the Garden of Eden

by Jean Jardine Miller

Overview

Two children desperately try to keep their family together in a slum in Victorian Bromley-by-Bow. On their mother's death, they are taken to Annie Macpherson's House of Industry leaving their small sister and baby brother with their only relative. After spending the winter and spring in the relative comfort of Macpherson's 'Beehive', they sail for Canada with one of the early parties of children destined for life on Ontario farms. Apprehensive at first, as the years go by they both come to appreciate the fulfilling lives they are able to attain by taking the opportunities offered to them by the people who take them in.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780973137699
Publisher:	Jardine Miller Publishing
Publication date:	10/07/2015
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

After a long career as an advertising copywriter, developer/designer of business communications materials and researcher/editor/ghostwriter of a number of small press non-fiction books, Jean Jardine Miller is now concentrating on writing her own novels, featuring Canadian families and the challenges they face in life. A consistently increasing audience is enjoying the first three, "Fate and Angus McGrath", "Daffodil Dancing" and The Family History" and she has recently published "From Ragged London to the Garden of Eden" which follows the lives of a young brother and sister brought to Canada from the East End of London as child immigrants in nineteenth century.
Jean lives in Shelburne, a small Ontario town, where she is active in community theatre and hikes regularly on the nearby Niagara Escarpment.