Pioneer Women in a Pioneer Land, Yesterday's Tall Poppies
Author : Susanna De Vries-Evans
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author : Susanna De Vries-Evans
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author : Susanna De Vries
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780207156878
Author : Susanna de Vries
Publisher : Pirgos Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0980621690
Attractive Nell Tritton was determined to embrace a life of adventure after her elder siblings died in the 1919 flu pandemic. She became Brisbane’s first female journalist and won prizes for rally driving before moving to Paris, met struggling writers and fell in love with a penniless Tsarist officer. Warned by her wealthy father to avoid fortune hunters, Nell married after a whirlwind courtship. She wrote Tales from the Left Bank but her publisher demanded sexual privileges so she sold individual chapters as short stories. Her spy novel set against the infamous ‘Lockhart plot’ to kill Lenin in September 1918 was banned under the Official Secrets Act. When divorced, Nell worked in Paris for the former Russian Prime Minister, Alexander Kerensky who edited an anti-Communist anti-Hitler newspaper. Her rally driving skills saved her husband from Stalin’s assassins in a harrowing car chase through the narrow streets of Montparnasse. As the Germans invaded Paris, Kerensky was on Hitler’s death list and they joined a long queue of cars heading south. German planes bombed cars and machine-gunned their drivers so they sheltered in a ditch with only polluted water to drink. Eventually they reached the coast and were rescued by a British warship. The American government financed their passage to New York, where Kerensky became an advisor on Russian affairs and they were treated like royalty by exiled Russians. Nell suffered kidney damage as a result of drinking polluted water. They returned to Brisbane for the last months of Nell’s life when her family home became a centre of international intrigue.
Author : Michelle Scott Tucker
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1925626466
‘An intimate portrait of a woman who changed herself and Australia...Michelle Scott Tucker makes Elizabeth Macarthur step off the page.’ David Hunt , Author of Girt In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In any Austen novel that would be the end of the story, but for the real-life woman who became an Australian farming entrepreneur, it was just the beginning. John Macarthur took credit for establishing the Australian wool industry and would feature on the two-dollar note, but it was practical Elizabeth who managed their holdings—while dealing with the results of John’s manias: duels, quarrels, court cases, a military coup, long absences overseas, grandiose construction projects and, finally, his descent into certified insanity. Michelle Scott Tucker shines a light on an often-overlooked aspect of Australia’s history in this fascinating story of a remarkable woman. Michelle Scott Tucker owns and operates a management consulting company, and lives on a small farm in regional Victoria with her husband and children. Elizabeth Macarthur is her first book. ‘Tucker’s great achievement is to have scraped back the familiar historical material to uncover a fresh and compelling portrait of Elizabeth Macarthur in her own words and the words of those who knew her.’ Australian ‘In writing this lively, entertaining and profoundly empathetic biography, [Tucker] has also brought other colonial women out of the shaows and told their story too...There are not many biographies or histories of Australia that are unputdownable, but this one is. Highly recommended!’ ANZ LitLovers 'The triumphs and trials of Elizabeth Macarthur, a capable business woman and dedicated wife and mother, are given their due in this impressively researched biography.’ Brenda Niall ‘This carefully researched history is a highly interesting read that highlights the importance of women in the settlement of New South Wales.’ Otago Daily Times 'Finally, Elizabeth Macarthur steps out from the long shadow of her infamous, entrepreneurial husband. In Michelle Scott Tucker’s devoted hands, Elizabeth emerges as a canny businesswoman, charming diplomat, loving mother and indefatigable survivor. A fascinating, faithful portrait of a remarkable woman and the young, volatile colony she helped to build.’ Clare Wright ‘A nourishing, fascinating, and eye-opening read.’ Alpha Reader ‘Tucker expertly details the trials, tragedies and triumphs of the early settlement of NSW...This book is an important historical memoir documenting the incredible life of an Australian pioneer and her role as the matriarch of one of Australia’s first agricultural dynasties.’ Countryman ‘Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World is a great read. It crafts a compulsive story with good research, giving a convincing look into colonial New South Wales. It offers the pleasures of fine biography in tracing one person’s life in all its seasons, through its successes and failures, joys and miseries.’ NathanHobby blog ‘A stunning and intimate look at Elizabeth [Macarthur] and the family’s lives...Should be required reading in schools...An informative and learned look at colonial history.’ AU Review
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Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 1987-11
Category : Sydney (N.S.W.)
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Author : Helen Gregory
Publisher : Central Queensland University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Tells the moving stories of over three hundred pioneering women of Queensland from the 1860s to the 1960s.
Author : Brenda Niall
Publisher : Melbourne University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
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Author : Gail Reekie
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
This work brings together the work of many of the state's foremost feminist scholars, and uses a number of perspectives - historical, cultural, literary and political - to explore the distinctive experiences of women in Queensland.
Author : Holly Kerr Forsyth
Publisher : Miegunyah Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Presents the story of Elizabeth, Edna and six other women whose passions for their gardens and for garden making have shaped our relationship with the Australian landscape. Through personal records and public archives, the author brings to life these women's experiences.
Author : Patricia McDonald
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art and state
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