Core of My Heart, My Country: Women's Sense of Place and the Land in Australia and Canada by Maggie Mackellar

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

When Georgiana Molloy gave birth on the beach at Augusta in 1830 with boxes of her possessions lying where they'd landed, she was one of the many women who literally had to remake their homes out of the broken bones of their past.

In this passionate book Maggie MacKellar tells the stories of women on the frontier in Canada and Australia who ventured out in bonnets and petticoats to collect seeds, who abandoned sidesaddles to ride in the mountains, who risked their reputations to climb mountains - and beyond this it tells of the risky business of women who put their lives on the page to claim the importance of their experience. (back cover)

The women featured in this book are Georgiana Molloy, Mary O'Brien, Susan Allison, Marie Rose Smith, Alice Duncan-Kemp, Monica Hopkins, Mary Percy Jackson, Freda Du Faur, Mary Schaffer Warren, and Elyne Mitchell.