Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

Lady Bridget O'Hara, well-born, penniless and Irish, comes out to Queensland on a visit and marries Colin McKeith, a self-made cattleman with a settled hatred of Aboriginal people and of the English aristocracy, on about a fortnight's acquaintance. The marriage takes her to a station in the back country — the Never-Never — and the novel is the long collision between two people who have nothing whatever in common except the attraction: drought, isolation, politics, a strike, and Bridget's sympathy for the people her husband will not regard as people.

Rosa Campbell Praed grew up on a Queensland station and left for London in 1876, and published some forty novels drawing on both worlds. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land appeared in 1915 and is generally reckoned her best.

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