Abbotsford, New South Wales Abbotsford, New South Wales Abbotsford is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Abbotsford is 10 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Canada Bay. Abbotsford sits on the peninsula between Abbotsford Bay and Hen and Chicken Bay, on the Parramatta River. Abbotsford took its name from Abbotsford House, owned by Sir Arthur Renwick. He named his property after Abbotsford House in the United Kingdom, the residence of historical novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott. Abbotsford was first known by its
On the Banks of Plum Creek and her sister have to quit school because it closed when the grasshoppers arrive. Pa becomes lost near their home during a severe four-day blizzard. The novel ends with the happy family reunited on Christmas Eve. Although Plum Creek (in Redwood County, Minnesota) is near the town of Walnut Grove, the name is not mentioned in the novel. Virginia Kirkus had handled Wilder's debut novel "Little House in the Big Woods" for Harper & Brothers as its book editor from 1926 to 1932. In "Kirkus Reviews", her semi-monthly bulletin from 1933, she awarded this novel a starred review (as she