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Anya: Countess of Adelaide
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The lines of demarcation between fact, fiction and faction are no longer as clear-cut as once thought.
Agnes (Anya) Rasp, wife of the man who discovered the fabulous silver-rich lodes of Broken Hill, is the victim of a false and malicious story. This factional biography corrects the damage and weaves an imaginative life story of the pretty and ambitious German waitress whose marriage to one of the founders of BHP endows her with huge wealth and social position. Later, the widowed Agnes Rasp marries a European Aristocrat and throughout the dark days of WWI she dreams of returning from Germany as the Countess of Adelaide...
The lines of demarcation between fact, fiction and faction are no longer as clear-cut as once thought.
Agnes (Anya) Rasp, wife of the man who discovered the fabulous silver-rich lodes of Broken Hill, is the victim of a false and malicious story. This factional biography corrects the damage and weaves an imaginative life story of the pretty and ambitious German waitress whose marriage to one of the founders of BHP endows her with huge wealth and social position. Later, the widowed Agnes Rasp marries a European Aristocrat and throughout the dark days of WWI she dreams of returning from Germany as the Countess of Adelaide...