Charlotte Frances Champion Crespigny nee Dana (1820 - 1904)

A biography of Charlotte Frances Champion Crespigny nee Dana (1820 - 1904), her forebears, siblings and descendants. Charlotte Frances Dana, of middling gentry background, was married to a county solicitor when she met her second husband Philip Robert Champion Crespigny. After a scandalous divorce and a brief exile in France, they came to Australia in 1852 where Philip Robert became a Warden and Magistrate in the goldfields. Viewed through the life of Charlotte Frances, this is an account of a migrant Victorian family of the nineteenth century.