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.