Western Australia's Lady Forrest, 1844-1929: A Memoir by F K Crowley

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, with some marks on tail front cover. Interior and binding are still very good.

Lady Margaret Elvire Forrest (nee Hamersley)lived through eighty years of Australian history. She was born during the early pioneering days of the British settlement of Western Australia and died in the year that heralded the great national disaster of the 1930s. She lived through three epochs of social history: Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian. This included two significant experiments in Australian politics: colonial responsibility and national federation government. (Introduction)

Published initially in Melbourne Studies in Education (1962)