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

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Book has minor wear to edges and corners. Previous owner has signed inside page. Two tiny faint marks on right foredge. Dust jacket is in very good condition as it is covered in plastic contact.

This book is not a definitive study of all pioneering European women in early Australia. Still, it does look deeply at a few of those who 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.