Download or read book Voyages of Hope written by Peter Johnson and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new husband. Why did these women leave everything behind in England and come to the west coast? The answers lie in the lusty turmoil of a gold-rush frontier, the horrible disruptions of industrial England and the conflicting aims of earnest Christians and early British feminists.