Elizabeth & Elizabeth / Sue Williams
- Bib ID:
- 8552846
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Williams, Sue, 1959 April 2-, author
- Description:
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- Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021
- ©2021
- viii, 328 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781760631345
- Summary:
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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 novel of enduring fascination.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- Macarthur, Elizabeth, 1766-1850 -- Fiction
- Macarthur, Elizabeth, 1766?-1850 -- Fiction
- Macquarie, Elizabeth Henrietta, 1777-1835 -- Fiction
- Women pioneers -- New South Wales -- Fiction
- Women -- Fiction
- Female frendship -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Governors' spouses -- Australia -- Fiction
- Farmers' spouses -- Australia -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- New South Wales -- Social life and customs -- 1760-1850 -- Fiction
- Australia -- Fiction
- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Also Titled:
- Elizabeth and Elizabeth
- Copyright:
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