SUMMER AT MOUNT HOPE

Phoeba Crupp is a gal of inconveniently independent tendencies, to the concern of her mother and her sisters although not of her father, whose mind is on his vineyard - regarded with deep suspicion by the neighbouring graziers. The economy is depressed and dangerously unemployed men roam the roads, while the nearby squatter is not as wealthy as he used to be.

Pride and Prejudice set in the Victorian wheat belt of the 1890s.