Searching for Charlotte: The Fascinating Story of Australia's First Children's Author by Kate Forsyth and Belinda Murrell

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Back left tail corner has been exposed to mosture. The pages have swelled by are separate.

In Searching for Charlotte, Forsyth and Murrell tell Charlotte Waring Atkinson's story along with that of their journey to discover her.

In an intriguing account, the sisters join the reader in reacting to Charlotte's actions: wondering what could have motivated certain choices, admiring the strength of spirit that pushed Charlotte through turmoil in the Australian colonies, and reviling attitudes that were common to the mid-1800s but are abhorrent in the twentieth century.

The extraordinary, long-buried life story of Australia's earliest published children's author, Searching for Charlotte combines elements of biography, the recreation of history and the rediscovery of family history. It is a sometimes confronting but ultimately heartwarming journey into the story of a family with writing in its blood. (back cover)