Description
Sheena Wenham’s ancestors, Florence Sutherland Graeme and Flo’s father, Alexander, kept journals of visits to Scotland’s Orkney Islands in the 1800s. While the elder Sutherland Graeme describes life among the upper classes in Georgian times, Flo’s stories breathe life into the social history of Victorian Orkney through the eyes of a vivacious and talented young woman. Her journal, paintings and sketches lovingly illuminate one facet of life in the Orkney of 1866.
Along with the art and journal entries by Flo and – a generation earlier – Flo’s father, the author adds her own chapters illuminating Flo’s life in England, details and paintings from a visit to Glamis, an Afterwards chapter and separate Who’s Who chapters covering Orkney residents mentioned in both Flo’s and Alexander’s Orkney journals.
