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Georgiana’s Letter

Climbing the Bridlepath – we were much puzzled

Listen to this re-enactment of Georgiana Bowen reading out loud a letter she wrote to her sisters in 1851. The her letter gives details of her arrival in Canterbury, living in tents and the Canterbury Society.

Georgiana’s letters
Source: G. Bowen, Letters to her sisters in Ireland 6 January 1851, 12 March 1851.
Canterbury Museum Documentary Research Centre

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