Can you hear the sea? : my grandmother's story / Brenda Niall.
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TextPublisher: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing Company, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925498790Subject(s): Gorman, Agnes Jane, 1869-1953 | Grandmothers -- Australia -- Biography | Single women -- Australia -- Biography | Women immigrants -- Australia -- Biography | Farm life -- Australia -- BiographyGenre/Form: Biographies. DDC classification: 305.40994 Summary: 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.
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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.
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