Portrait with Background: Georgiana Molloy by Alexandra Hasluck

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Damp stain to spine tail and front cover. Foxing and sunning to foredges. Sticky tape stains on inside covers and endpages. Some foxing marks on a few pages. Dust jacket is missing. Now enclosed in protective non-adhesive cover. Binding is still good. A readable copy rather than collable copy.

Georgiana Molloy is best known as one of Australia's first and most successful botanists. As a pioneer settler in Augusta and later Vasse River, Molloy and her family endured significant hardship. Yet remarkably, she was the first to study and identify many of Western Australia's wildflowers.

Alexandra Hasluck also wrote Georgiana Molloy's entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Dame Hasluck herself is included in the Australian Dictionary of Biography for her significance as a historian, biographer, and short-story writer.