Portrait with Background: Georgiana Molloy by Alexandra Hasluck

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Some chipping to spine. Some scuffing to covers. Interior and binding are still very good.

First paperback edition, 1966.

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.