"If you were to go into your bedroom tonight – perhaps by candlelight – and sit quietly before the large mirror, you might see what I have seen. Sit patiently, looking neither at yourself nor at the glass. You might notice that the image is not yours, but that of an exceptional person who lived at s
Elizabeth and Elizabeth
✍ Scribed by Macarthur, Elizabeth;Macquarie, Elizabeth Henrietta;Williams, Sue
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 171 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Australia,Australia., Sydney
- ISBN
- 1760870153
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
'I've waited for this moment so long, dreamed of it, prepared for it, I can barely believe it's finally here. But it is. And it is nothing like I expected.'
There was a short time in Australia's European history when two women wielded extraordinary power and influence behind the scenes of the fledgling colony.
One was Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of the new governor Lachlan Macquarie, nudging him towards social reform and magnificent buildings and town planning. The other was Elizabeth Macarthur, credited with creating Australia's wool industry and married to John Macarthur, a dangerous enemy of the establishment.
These women came from strikingly different backgrounds with husbands who held sharply conflicting views. They should have been bitter foes. _Elizabeth & Elizabeth _is about two courageous women thrown together in impossible times.
Borne out of an overriding admiration for the women of early colonial Australian history, Sue Williams has written a...
✦ Subjects
Australia
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