Title: A fringe of leaves
First published: 1976
Description: Set in Australia in the 1840's. Returning home to England from Van Dieman's Land, the ship is wrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs. Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of aborigines, along with the rest of the crew. In the course of her escape, she is torn by conflicting loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer, to her own and to her adoptive class.
Subjects: Fiction, Wilderness survival, Gay authors, Women, Shipwrecks, Women -- Australia -- 19th century -- Fiction., Fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Fiction in English, Shipwreck victims
Places: Australia
Time periods: 19th century