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

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Book has minor wear at tail spine and corners. Light foxing on top foredge. Dust jacket has light creasing at top edge.

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 endeavours.

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.