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'Cream cakes and inventions. Fake gold and kung-fu. Meet Evangeline.
In 1882, “Marvellous” Melbourne was flush with gold-rush cash and the British Empire’s second biggest city.
Evangeline, a seventeen year old reformed urchin and acrobat, is settling into a new comfortable life in Melbourne with her long lost father, Professor Caldicott. But learning to be a lady is awfully dull. Then one day, the police arrive, seeking the Professor’s expertise in catching an Alchemist.
Is this a chance for Evangeline to test out her new invention and save the day? With regular breaks for tea and cream buns, of course.
Evangeline & the Alchemist is a steampunk mystery-adventure novella and the first in The Antics of Evangeline series.'
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Steampunk Note: The common tropes of Victorian-era characters (such as professors and street-urchins) as well as a drawing-room Victorian aesthetic, semi-fantastical elements and a focus on inventions places this story firmly in the realm of steampunk fiction.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- 1880s
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- 1882