Sisters of freedom / Mary-Anne O'Connor.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : HQ Fiction, 2022Copyright date: ©2021Edition: Second Australian paperback editionDescription: 362 pages : map ; 20 cmContent type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781867244493 (paperback)Subject(s): Sisters -- Fiction | Women's rights -- Australia -- History -- Fiction | Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 1901-1945 -- Fiction | Australia -- History -- 1901-1914 -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Historical fiction. | Domestic fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: "Sydney, Christmas, 1901. Federation has been achieved but Australian women are yet to gain the right to vote in their new nation's elections and have a say in the laws that govern them. Bolshy, boisterous Frankie Merriweather is a fervent advocate for women's rights, determined to dedicate herself to the cause, never marrying or becoming a mother. She can't understand her artistic sister Ivy, who wants a life of ease and beauty with her soon-to-be fiance, law student Patrick Earle. Meanwhile, their married sister Aggie volunteers in an orphanage, decrying the inequality of Australia's social classes ... and longing to hold a baby in her arms. When an accident takes Ivy, wounded and ill, into the violent and lawless zone of the Hawkesbury River, a year of change begins. Ivy's burgeoning friendship with her saviour Riley Logan, a smuggler, and his sister, the poverty-stricken but valiant Fiona, will alter the lives of all three women forever." -- Back cover.
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First published: 2021.
"Love, motherhood, the vote ... could they have it all?"--Cover.
"Sydney, Christmas, 1901. Federation has been achieved but Australian women are yet to gain the right to vote in their new nation's elections and have a say in the laws that govern them. Bolshy, boisterous Frankie Merriweather is a fervent advocate for women's rights, determined to dedicate herself to the cause, never marrying or becoming a mother. She can't understand her artistic sister Ivy, who wants a life of ease and beauty with her soon-to-be fiance, law student Patrick Earle. Meanwhile, their married sister Aggie volunteers in an orphanage, decrying the inequality of Australia's social classes ... and longing to hold a baby in her arms. When an accident takes Ivy, wounded and ill, into the violent and lawless zone of the Hawkesbury River, a year of change begins. Ivy's burgeoning friendship with her saviour Riley Logan, a smuggler, and his sister, the poverty-stricken but valiant Fiona, will alter the lives of all three women forever." -- Back cover.
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