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

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Secondhand. Very good to near fine condition. Minor wear to book corners.

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 which heralded the great national disaster of the 1930s. She lived through three epochs of social history - Victorian. Edwardian and Georgian, saw two great experiments in Australian politics - colonial responsibility and national federation government. (Introduction)

Originally published in Melbourne Studies in Education (1962)