Upstarts & Outcasts: Victoria's Not-So-Proper Past

by Valerie Green

The popular myth of Victoria's genteel history -- all upper-class colonists and Royal Navy dances -- is ripe for puncturing. Yes, there were the wealthy and the well-born, but the city's pioneers also included madams and murderers, salesmen and saloon-keepers who would never have been seated at the dinner tables of the elite. But these people, upstanding citizens or impudent criminals, contributed in their way to the life of the little settlement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0920663745
• ISBN13: 9780920663745
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Touchwood Editions
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 7.5"