Daughter of Fortune

Description:

A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel

subjects: Gold mines and mining,  Fiction,  History,  Social life and customs,  Manners and customs,  Open Library Staff Picks,  Gold mines and mining in fiction,  California in fiction,  Love stories,  Historical fiction,  Gold discoveries,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Chilean fiction,  Gold miners,  Voyages to the Pacific coast,  Vida,  Frontera y exploradores,  Ficción,  Descubrimiento de oro,  Goldrausch,  German fiction,  Translations from Spanish,  Chile, fiction,  Hispanic americans, fiction,  San francisco (calif.), fiction,  Fiction, historical,  Fiction, general,  Aventura,  Novela,  Vida fronteriza,  California,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, historical, general,  California, fiction,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  Fiction, romance, general,  Fiction, action & adventure,  Fiction, thrillers, suspense,  Romance literature,  Or,  Romans, nouvelles,  Mines et extraction,  Mœurs et coutumes,  Littérature espagnole,  Roman,  Mineros,  Vida social y costumbres,  Minas de oro,  Descubrimientos de oro

Places: California,  Valparaiso,  San Francisco

Times: 1846-1850,  19th century,  1843-1853