Town life in Australia

by R. E. N. (Richard Ernest Nowell) Twopeny, 1857-1915.

Paperback, 1883

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Available

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TWO R

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Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny (1 August 1857 – 2 September 1915) or Twopenny or Turpenny was an Australian rules footballer, journalist and newspaper editor/owner in New Zealand and Australia. In 1883 Twopeny wrote a series of letters that would later be complied into a book titled Town Life in Australia which compared the major cities of Australia, at the time Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, to each other and to those in the United Kingdom.

An edition of this publication is available online (as at 27/07/10) at: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16664.

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Publication

London : Elliot Stock, 1883. (Query - Rigby?, facsimile?)

Description

Although most educated people know that Melbourne- Sydney- and Adelaide are populous towns- I should doubt whether one Englishman- who has not been to Australia- out of a hundred realizes that fact.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)