Portrait with Background [Georgiana Molloy] by Alexandra Hasluck

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good.

Georgiana Molloy is best known as one of Australia's first and most successful botanists. As a pioneer settler in Augusta and later on the 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.