| Main Title: |
Miss D & Miss N : an extraordinary partnership : the diary of Anne Drysdale / edited by Bev Roberts. |
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| Author: |
Drysdale, Anne, 1792-1853
Roberts, Bev
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| Imprint: |
Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009. |
| Collation: |
xv, 331 p. : ill. (some col.), portraits, facsims., plans, bib., pbk. ; 21 cm. |
| Summary: |
In 1839 Miss Anne Drysdale sailed from Scotland to Port Philip. She was 47 years old, had a small inheritance, and was determined to be a sheep farmer. Soon after arriving in Melbourne she took up land near Geelong and formed a partnership with another en
rkable women were recorded in Anne's diary and four of its five volumes have survived, providing a rare, detailed account of domestic and farming life in the 1840s. Substantial extracts from the diary are published for the first time in this book, and w |
| Subject: |
Drysdale, Anne, 1792-1853
Newcomb, Caroline Elizabeth, 1812-1874
Boronggoop Station (Geelong, Vic.)
Coriyule Homestead (Drysdale, Vic.)
Diaries and journals
Squatters and squatting
Women
Pioneers
Sheep industry
Drysdale (Vic.) (Wadawurrung Country)
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| ISBN: |
9781921509148 |
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