Louisa Lawson: Henry Lawson's Crusading Mother by Lorna Ollif

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly at spine. Significant foxing to foredges. Foxing marks on front blank endpage. Bookplate on title page. Binding is still very good. Dust jacket is still very good with light creasing to top and tail edges.

This biography throws new light on Louisa Lawson's (1848-1920) role as a wife and mother and on her attempts to foster the talent that she recognised in her son Henry. Her work to create better conditions for those around her and her activities as a liberator of women are displayed with sympathy and affection. One of her contemporaries wrote that 'she strove fearlessly for her country's good'. (book flap)