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... bush for reasons that had nothing to do with the location itself , the landscape . Of course the term ' bush ' was used to cover a multitude of landscapes from the semi - arid districts of the Wimmera where some of the governesses were ...
... bush for reasons that had nothing to do with the location itself , the landscape . Of course the term ' bush ' was used to cover a multitude of landscapes from the semi - arid districts of the Wimmera where some of the governesses were ...
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... bush when literary conventions were not inter- fering . Some material I excluded merely because there was not enough of it . A few pages from a diary , a single letter on its own , are fleeting glimpses of a life , and to pursue my ...
... bush when literary conventions were not inter- fering . Some material I excluded merely because there was not enough of it . A few pages from a diary , a single letter on its own , are fleeting glimpses of a life , and to pursue my ...
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... bush life , Annie replied with a sequence of carefully composed letters . Today they seem much livelier and more readable than most of the accounts then being published in the British press . One of the best - known of these ...
... bush life , Annie replied with a sequence of carefully composed letters . Today they seem much livelier and more readable than most of the accounts then being published in the British press . One of the best - known of these ...
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Anna Cook and Ellen Moger | 19 |
Louisa Clifton | 39 |
Annie Baxter | 86 |
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