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Females on the fatal shore : Australia's brave pioneers / Susanna De Vries
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67391
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305.40994 DEV
Author:
De Vries, Susanna
Publisher:
Brisbane: Pirgos Press
Year:
2009
Description:
iv, 411 p., [12] p. plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
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Isbn:
9780958540872
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Book
Abstract:
This is the story of the lives of 11 significant women who sailed to the colonies in Australia's founding years... Letters and portraits help bring these women to life and describe the dangers and deprivations of pioneering in the six colonies that would
unite at Federation to form one nation - Australia.
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Contents:
Esther Johnston (Abrahams); Rosanna Julian (Nichols) -- Elizabeth Macarthur (Veale) -- Mary Reibey (Haydock) -- Frances (Fanny) Leonora Macleay -- Mary Ann Friend (Ford) -- Eliza Forlong (Jack) -- Mary Thomas (Harris) -- Louisa Ann Meredith (Twamley)
-- Georgiana McCrae (Huntly) -- Anne Caldwell (Mooney) -- Mary Anna Spencer (later McManus).
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