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Book/Printed Material The Gentleman Digger: Being Studies and Pictures of Life in Johannesburg.

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Title

  • The Gentleman Digger: Being Studies and Pictures of Life in Johannesburg.

Summary

  • The Gentleman Digger is a fictional work set in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1889. Following the discovery of gold in the 1880s, Johannesburg became a boomtown that attracted miners and prospectors from all over the world. The book depicts the rapid growth of the city and the squalor, glitter, drunkenness, and crime that characterized the early mining camps. The book's author, the Comtesse de Brémont (1864--1922), was born Anna Dunphy to Irish parents in Cincinnati, Ohio. At the age of 17, she married the Comte de Brémont, a French medical doctor. Widowed in 1882, she began a career as a journalist and writer. She worked in Kimberley and Johannesburg in the 1880s and in the 1890s divided her time between London and South Africa. Her other books include a volume of sonnets and poems, a memoir of English poet Oscar Wilde and his mother, Lady Wilde, and two other books about Africa: The Ragged Edge: Tales of the African Gold Fields (1895) and A Son of Africa: A Romance (1899).

Names

  • Brémont, Anna de, Comtesse, 1864-1922 Author.

Created / Published

  • London : Greening & Company, 1899.

Headings

  • -  South Africa--Gauteng--Johannesburg
  • -  1895 to 1899
  • -  Gold miners
  • -  Gold mines and mining
  • -  Manners and customs

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: xii, 301 pages : illustrated ; 18 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: University of Pretoria Library.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Africana Books Collection

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666754

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Brémont, Anna De, Comtesse, Author. The Gentleman Digger: Being Studies and Pictures of Life in Johannesburg. London: Greening & Company, 1899. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666754/.

APA citation style:

Brémont, A. D. (1899) The Gentleman Digger: Being Studies and Pictures of Life in Johannesburg. London: Greening & Company. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666754/.

MLA citation style:

Brémont, Anna De, Comtesse, Author. The Gentleman Digger: Being Studies and Pictures of Life in Johannesburg. London: Greening & Company, 1899. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666754/>.