SNSW Historic Houses Trust, 1988, Softcover, Book Condition: Good, Unstated
"...This book is focused on the women of the Macleay family & the lives they led in England & New South Wales over the period 1790 to 1850. In particular, this study draws on the writings of the family's eldest daughter, Fanny, whose letters & writings whose letters & other writings over 24 years deserve to be recognised as among our richest historical sources for the first half of the nineteenth century. They gave us a rare insight into not only the outlook of one of our first families of intellectuals in the colony but into their ideas & practiice in science, art, education, religion philanthropy, as well as two of the issues that always weighed heavily on their minds, money & marriage...." Card Covers. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 96 pages. Covers have some shelf wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0949753351. ISBN/EAN: 9780949753359. Inventory No: 54376.
"...This book is focused on the women of the Macleay family & the lives they led in England & New South Wales over the period 1790 to 1850. In particular, this study draws on the writings of the family's eldest daughter, Fanny, whose letters & writings whose letters & other writings over 24 years deserve to be recognised as among our richest historical sources for the first half of the nineteenth century. They gave us a rare insight into not only the outlook of one of our first families of intellectuals in the colony but into their ideas & practiice in science, art, education, religion philanthropy, as well as two of the issues that always weighed heavily on their minds, money & marriage...." Card Covers. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 96 pages. Covers have some shelf wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0949753351. ISBN/EAN: 9780949753359. Inventory No: 54376.