Great pioneer women of the outback / Susanna De Vries.

By: De Vries, Susanna, 1935-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollins Publishers, 2005Description: xviii, 302 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 24 cmISBN: 0732276632 :Other title: Great pioneer women of the outback : facing hardship, danger and deprivation [Other title]Subject(s): Women pioneers -- Australia | Pioneers -- Australia | Pioneers -- Australia | Women pioneers -- Australia -- Biography | Pioneers -- Australia -- Biography | Women | Remote areas | Land settlement | Biography | History, 1801-1900 | History, 1901-1945 | Women | Remote areas | Land settlement | Biography | History, 1801-1900 | History, 1901-1945DDC classification: 994.0922 LOC classification: DU110 | .D4 2005
Contents:
1. Farming fresh fields: Georgiana Molloy , Frances (Fanny) Bussell, Elizabeth (Bessie) Bussell, Charlotte Cookworthy Bussell -- 2. The spinifex pioneer who became the 'mother of the north-west': Emma Mary Withnell -- 3. Mothering seven little Australians at Alice Springs: Atlanta Hope Bradshaw -- 4. The story behind We of the never-never: Jeannie Gunn, OBE -- 5. An English rose in the outback: Evelyn Maunsell -- 6. On the desert fringe: Catherine Langloh Parker, Myrtle Rose White.
Summary: In the 1800s, the first white farmers and graziers making their homes in the outback were joined by their wives, many of whom had no idea what lay in store. This book profiles Australia's women pioneers and records the extraordinary grit and determination it took to build what many today would consider an ordinary life.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [285]-295.

1. Farming fresh fields: Georgiana Molloy , Frances (Fanny) Bussell, Elizabeth (Bessie) Bussell, Charlotte Cookworthy Bussell -- 2. The spinifex pioneer who became the 'mother of the north-west': Emma Mary Withnell -- 3. Mothering seven little Australians at Alice Springs: Atlanta Hope Bradshaw -- 4. The story behind We of the never-never: Jeannie Gunn, OBE -- 5. An English rose in the outback: Evelyn Maunsell -- 6. On the desert fringe: Catherine Langloh Parker, Myrtle Rose White.

In the 1800s, the first white farmers and graziers making their homes in the outback were joined by their wives, many of whom had no idea what lay in store. This book profiles Australia's women pioneers and records the extraordinary grit and determination it took to build what many today would consider an ordinary life.

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