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Author Tucker, Michelle Scott, author

Title Elizabeth Macarthur : a life at the end of the world / Michelle Scott Tucker
Published Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2019
©2018

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 W'PONDS  994.402092 Macart Tuc/Ema  AVAILABLE
Description 386 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), 1 colour map, portraits, genealogical table ; 20 cm
Summary In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In any Austen novel that would be the end of the story, but for the real-life woman who became an Australian farming entrepreneur, it was just the beginning
Analysis Australian
Notes First published: 2018
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Macarthur, Elizabeth, 1766?-1850.
Macarthur, John, 1767-1834.
Farmers -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
Women farmers -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
Pioneers -- Australia -- Biography.
Women pioneers -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
Businesswomen -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
Wool industry -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Biography.
Sheep ranches -- Australia -- History.
SUBJECT New South Wales -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001495 -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475
Australia -- History -- 1788-1851. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009592
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. be2019008729
ISBN 9781925773736 (paperback)