Here is the reading and research pile for my upcoming historical novel.
Queenstown in the 1860s – 1880s. What an era! What a cast of characters!
Gold, floods, robberies, grand balls, tenacity, kindness, grace, and grit.
Read about history through the life of Julia Eichardt, born Shanahan, who arrived in Queenstown as a young single woman with a dream: a fine hotel with her name above the door.
Julia’s hotel, Eichardt’s, still stands on the shore of Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown.