Lyra Australis; or, Attempts to Sing in a Strange Land.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: Bickers and Bush, 1854. Sm. 8vo. Orig. dark green blind-stamped cloth (spine extremities rubbed). (xiv, 298pp.). 1st ed. A good partly unopened copy. The author's only book of verse; she subsequently wrote "The Broad Arrow" in 1859, a novel on convict life in Tasmania. NOTE: Caroline Woolmer Leakey was born in 1827, resided in Hobart, and died in 1881.