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Title: The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
Author: Clare Wright
Narrator: Kate Hosking
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-17-17
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: History, 20th Century
Publisher's Summary:
The story of how gold miners rebelled against British authority, beginning a process that would ultimately lead to democracy in Australia.
The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends - yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? What if there were women and children right there beside them inside the Stockade when the bullets started to fly? And how do the answers to these questions change what we thought we knew about the so-called 'birth of Australian democracy'? Who, in fact, were the midwives to that precious delivery?
Ten years in the research and writing, irrepressibly bold, entertaining and often irreverent in style, Clare Wright's The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is a fitting tribute to the unbiddable women of Ballarat - women who made Eureka a story for us all.
Critic Reviews:
''Immediately entrancing...Wright challenges the traditional view of the stockade to create a much richer social history.'' (The Guardian)
''Evokes the goldfields era vividly...brings to life the experiences of so many young immigrants to Australia in the 1850.'' (The Age)
Members Reviews:
This is a thoroughly researched and extremely readable account of ...
This is a thoroughly researched and extremely readable account of Eureka, one of Australia's most significant events. The attention to the lesser role that has been neglected until this publication is most welcome in our attempts to gain a full and accurate picture of the Eureka events. The women were certainly present and had a significant role as the events unfolded.
Clare has restored women to history and demonstrated that history has not always been in the male hands at times the male was seen running from conflict whilst women stood and fought.
The book is, however, more than an insistence on restoring women to a positive role in the Eureka history. It gives a detailed account of the events in one of Australia's most significant stands against authoritarianism and privilege. Would that there were more of it today.
A bit of a yawn
Some of it Wright makes up in a novelistic way. Perhaps it is passing for inclusion in the genre of narrative history. Wright adds more research into the Eureka story that tells something of what women were doing when on the gold fields. This adds little to an understanding of the historical event except a bit of context. The book struggles at times to be a bit of B rate historical novel. Given that this book won and important prize in Australia, it doesn't bod well for the quality of the work of other entrants to the prize. Though well written - in terms of the grasp of language - it is generally pretty boring.
This book gives a great insight to life on the goldfields around Ballarat during ...
This book gives a great insight to life on the goldfields around Ballarat during the Victorian Gold Rush period. We especially learn about what it was like for women at the gold fields. Because the book is based on extensive research, we read about people who were actually involved in the struggle for survival at the diggings, the Eureka Rebellion and events following. It follows the lives of many of these people who after the Rebellion went on to work, raise families and build communities.
