Can you hear the sea? : my grandmother's story / Grandmothers Single women Women immigrants Farm life
Niall, Brenda, 1930-
Can you hear the sea? : my grandmother's story / Brenda Niall. - 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm.
Brenda Niall has turned her biographer's eye to a personal subject - her grandmother Aggie ( Agnes Jane Maguire). She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved a new country as a single woman, teaching in a country school, before marrying Richard Gorman, a Riverina grazier, whose large powerful family was wary of the newcomer with ideas of her own. Aggie dealt with hardships and loneliness after the early and drawn-out death of her husband, and brought up her seven children to be happy - all with a calm determination. But it was the memory box and her longing for the sea that captured the imagination of her granddaughter.
9781925498790
Gorman, Agnes Jane, 1869-1953.
Grandmothers--Australia--Biography.
Single women--Australia--Biography.
Women immigrants--Australia--Biography.
Farm life--Australia--Biography.
Biographies.
305.40994
Can you hear the sea? : my grandmother's story / Brenda Niall. - 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm.
Brenda Niall has turned her biographer's eye to a personal subject - her grandmother Aggie ( Agnes Jane Maguire). She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved a new country as a single woman, teaching in a country school, before marrying Richard Gorman, a Riverina grazier, whose large powerful family was wary of the newcomer with ideas of her own. Aggie dealt with hardships and loneliness after the early and drawn-out death of her husband, and brought up her seven children to be happy - all with a calm determination. But it was the memory box and her longing for the sea that captured the imagination of her granddaughter.
9781925498790
Gorman, Agnes Jane, 1869-1953.
Grandmothers--Australia--Biography.
Single women--Australia--Biography.
Women immigrants--Australia--Biography.
Farm life--Australia--Biography.
Biographies.
305.40994