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What does freedom cost when desire draws you into a world of frozen rivers and remote camps?
In A Girl of the Klondike, Victoria Cross brings romance into the hard landscape of the Yukon gold rush. A young woman stands at the heart of a story shaped by desire, survival and independence. Around her lies a world of snow, rivers and rough camps, where the search for fortune meets the demands of a cold, distant place.
Cross puts strong feeling at the centre of this frontier romance. Passion presses against hardship, while the wish for freedom raises questions about its price. Read it for that contrast: human wants against a harsh landscape, the pull of independence against the need to survive. This is a tale of emotion and adventure, rather than a precise record of the Klondike.
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- A cold frontier Enter a Yukon landscape where long winters and frozen rivers make distance matter.
- Passion under pressure Explore the tension between strong desire and the hard demands of survival.
- The price of freedom Consider what independence asks of a young woman who steps beyond the usual path.
- Gold rush dreams Encounter a setting that draws prospectors, traders and dreamers in search of fortune.
- Feeling against the wilderness Discover the contrast between the warmth of passion and a cold, unforgiving world.
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- The Yukon is a world of its own
- Desire pulls against survival
- Freedom has a price
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Una joven del Klondike
by Victoria Cross · 1899
In the frozen Yukon, a young woman risks love and freedom as gold rush dangers test her desires.
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The Yukon is a world of its own
The Klondike gold rush drew prospectors, traders and dreamers to the Yukon in the late 1890s. Stories set there lean on the same facts: long winters, frozen rivers, remote camps and a law that feels far away.
In such a place, ordinary rules of town life loosen. People live close together in rough conditions, and choices that would be private elsewhere become matters of survival. A romance placed here carries a sense of risk from the start.
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What is A Girl of the Klondike about?
It is a romance set during the Yukon gold rush. It follows a young woman and the desires, dangers and choices that come with life in a remote northern camp.
Who wrote A Girl of the Klondike?
Victoria Cross, an English novelist known for passionate romances set in distant places. She wrote in the early twentieth century and died in 1952.
When is A Girl of the Klondike set?
It is set during the Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s, when many people travelled to the Yukon in Canada hoping to find gold.
The author
Victoria Cross
English novelist
Victoria Cross was a pen name of Annie Sophie Cory (1868–1952), a British novelist. She was born in Rawalpindi, then in British India, and died in Milan, Italy. She wrote novels in English, including A Girl of the Klondike, which was published in 1899.
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