Georgiana Molloy : the mind that shines / Bernice Barry.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, N.S.W. : Picador by Pan Macmillan, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 336 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : facsimiles, portraits, illustrations (some colour), genealogical table, map ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781743549148Subject(s): Molloy, Georgiana, 1805-1843 | Women pioneers -- Western Australia -- Biography | Women botanists -- Western Australia -- Biography | Frontier and pioneer life -- Western Australia -- BiographyDDC classification: 994.102092 Summary: BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. AUSTRALIAN. A richly detailed biography of pioneering Australian botanist, Georgiana Molloy; a tale of love, adventure and flora. In 1829, estranged from her family and living in an isolated Scottish village, Georgiana Kennedy makes a sudden decision to marry Captain John Molloy of the Rifle Brigade - a handsome hero with a mysterious past. Together, they emigrate to the remote southwest of Western Australia with the first small group of European settlers, experiencing great hardship in the fledgling colonies of Augusta and Busselton. In times of personal tragedy and privation, botany is Georgiana Molloy's salvation. Entirely self-taught, she becomes the first internationally successful female botanist in Western Australia. Today, her collections of indigenous flora of the southwest, including type specimens, are archived in the world's leading herbaria.
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"A biography of one of Australia's first female botanical collectors" - cover.
First published 2015 by Redgate Consultants.
Includes bibliographic references and index.
BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. AUSTRALIAN. A richly detailed biography of pioneering Australian botanist, Georgiana Molloy; a tale of love, adventure and flora. In 1829, estranged from her family and living in an isolated Scottish village, Georgiana Kennedy makes a sudden decision to marry Captain John Molloy of the Rifle Brigade - a handsome hero with a mysterious past. Together, they emigrate to the remote southwest of Western Australia with the first small group of European settlers, experiencing great hardship in the fledgling colonies of Augusta and Busselton. In times of personal tragedy and privation, botany is Georgiana Molloy's salvation. Entirely self-taught, she becomes the first internationally successful female botanist in Western Australia. Today, her collections of indigenous flora of the southwest, including type specimens, are archived in the world's leading herbaria.
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