Ewelme Cottage - Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga

This guide to Ewelme Cottage in Auckland follows Blanche Lush, who arrived from England in eighteen fifty with her clergyman husband Vicesimus Lush after a five-month voyage, and the kauri cottage they built in Parnell in eighteen sixty-three. It traces the family's early losses, including scarlet fever that struck the household in eighteen fifty-four, and the decades Blanche spent alone in these rooms after her husband's death in 1882. The books, furniture and sheet music from those years still sit in the rooms as you walk through them today.