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Chargement... Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the Worldpar Michelle Scott Tucker
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In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In any Austen novel that would be the end of the story, but for the real-life woman who became an Australian farming entrepreneur, it was just the beginning. A fascinating story of a remarkable woman. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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At some time in Form One or Two when we did Australian history, John Macarthur stole the show. We learned that he was the Father of the Wool Industry, and though we got a sanitised history of his other more colourful activities such as deposing Governor Bligh, we heard nothing about his wife Elizabeth. My Oxford Dictionary of Australian History mentions her ‘greatly assisting’ her husband in the development of the Australian fine wool industry but says no more, and Thomas Keneally in Australians, Origins to Eureka mentions her quite a few times but mainly as a sensible woman who chronicled events starring her husband. Well, with the publication of Elizabeth Macarthur, a Life at the Edge of the World, no one will be able to get away with that any more. As Clare Wright says in the blurb:
But Tucker does more than that, IMO, because in writing this lively, entertaining and profoundly empathetic biography, she has also brought other colonial women out of the shadows and told their story too.