TY  - BOOK
AU  - Niall,Brenda
TI  - Can you hear the sea?: my grandmother's story 
SN  - 9781925498790
U1  - 305.40994 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Melbourne, Victoria
PB  - Text Publishing Company
KW  - Gorman, Agnes Jane,
KW  - Grandmothers
KW  - Australia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Single women
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Farm life
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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
ER  -