From Ragged London to the Garden of Eden
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Two children desperately try to keep their family together in a slum in Victorian Bromley-by-Bow. On their mother's death, they are taken to Annie Macpherson's House of Industry leaving their small sister and baby brother with their only relative. After spending the winter and spring in the relative comfort of Macpherson's 'Beehive', they sail for Canada with one of the early parties of children destined for life on Ontario farms. Apprehensive at first, as the years go by they both come to appreciate the fulfilling lives they are able to attain by taking the opportunities offered to them by the people who take them in.
Meticulous research into the living conditions in both London's East End and in Toronto, Guelph and Ontario towns and townships in Halton and Wellington counties and the immigrants' journey provides a very authentic feel to this story, taking readers back to a time when resourceful people began to change the patriarchal society dominated by wealth and privilege.
Jean Jardine Miller
After a long career as an advertising copywriter, developer/designer of business communications materials and researcher/editor/ghostwriter of a number of small press non-fiction books, Jean Jardine Miller is now concentrating on writing novels featuring Canadian families and the challenges they face in life. A consistently increasing audience is enjoying the first four, "Fate and Angus McGrath", "Daffodil Dancing", The Family History" and "From Ragged London to the Garden of Eden" She is currently at work on her fifth. This is, as yet untitled, and picks up some years after "From Ragged London to the Garden of Eden" following the lives of the children of Tom and Annie Denton, the young brother and sister brought to Canada from the East End of London as child immigrants in nineteenth century.
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