Author: HANCOCK, MARGUERITE.
Title: Colonial Consorts. The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839-1900.
Description: Limited First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xxii, 324; numerous plates and b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, original beige cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Limited edition of 1250 copies. Melbourne; Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press; 2001. The book makes extensive use of letters, diaries and family papers in libraries and archives in Switzerland, Scotland and Australia. These reveal the private feelings of eleven very different women: some longed constantly to go home; others found unexpected pleasure in their vice-regal duties, and recorded detailed and sometimes humorous reflections on colonial life.
Keywords: Australia australian local biography history colonial era women politics Victoria vic
Title: Colonial Consorts. The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839-1900.
Description: Limited First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xxii, 324; numerous plates and b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, original beige cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Limited edition of 1250 copies. Melbourne; Miegunyah/Melbourne University Press; 2001. The book makes extensive use of letters, diaries and family papers in libraries and archives in Switzerland, Scotland and Australia. These reveal the private feelings of eleven very different women: some longed constantly to go home; others found unexpected pleasure in their vice-regal duties, and recorded detailed and sometimes humorous reflections on colonial life.
Keywords: Australia australian local biography history colonial era women politics Victoria vic
Price: AUD 40.00 = appr. US$ 27.67 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 113095
- Book number: 113095