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ISBN | 9781925498790 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Bib. Info | 276 pages, [8] pages of unnumbered plates : colour illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm |
Categories | DU - Oceania (South Seas) |
Product Weight | 430 gms. |
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Brenda Niall has turned her biographer’s eye to a personal subject—her grandmother, Aggie. She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved a new country as a single woman, teaching in a country school, before marrying a Riverina grazier, whose large powerful family was wary of the newcomer with ideas of her own. Aggie dealt with hardships and loneliness after the early and drawn-out death of her husband, and brought up her seven children to be happy—all with a calm determination. But it was the memory box and her longing for the sea that captured the imagination of her granddaughter. Maguire, Agnes Jane. | Grandmothers -- Australia -- Biography. | Single women -- Australia -- Biography. | Women immigrants -- Australia -- Biography | Farm life -- Australia -- Biography. | Australian