The young letter writer

Grave Tales Australia: the series by Helen Goltz and Chris Adams

Dec 12, 202219:03Society & Culture

Dying young, Sylvia McArthur would make her mark, documenting in letters to a newspaper’s children’s page what life in rural Tasmania around the turn of the 20th century was like.

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