Mary Chambers: The Kind Hosts of Willie Wimmera, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Willie Wimmera, an Aboriginal boy, was ten years old when clergyman Lloyd Chase brought him from Melbourne to Reading in 1851. Tragically, he became ill and died only a few months after his arrival. He is buried in Reading Old Cemetery, his grave marked 'An Australian boy'. A member of the Wotjobaluk People from the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, Willie couldn't have been further from home - or in a place more different. What was he doing here? Who knew him and where did he live? A contemporary memoir, republished here for the first time, provides the starting point for this investigation. With information gleaned from the 1851 UK Census and other primary sources, Mary Chambers paints a fascinating picture of Willie Wimmera - creative, curious, affectionate, and sometimes rebellious - and his 'kind hosts', the people closest to him during the short time he spent in England.