Pioneer Women, Pioneer Land: Yesterday’s Tall Poppies by Susanna de Vries-Evans

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Book is in very good condition with minimal wear. Dust jacket is in good condition with some creasing and a small tear at to top of the spine.

This book is not a definitive study of all pioneering European women in early Australia but it does look deeply at a few of those that were "tall poppies" of their time, the high achievers with high profiles who left behind a record of their endeavors.

Included are Esther Johnston, Elizabeth Macarthur, Emmeline Leslie, Mary McConnel, Georgiana Huntly McCrae, Louisa Meredith, The Bussell Sisters, Georgiana Molloy, Mary Penford, Caroline Louisa Atkinson, Mary Ann Friend and Harriet Neville-Rolfe.