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Page 71
... in clearing Coombanah Road, the tool slipt and cut the side and ball of the foot
in a frightful manner. The loss of blood was considerable before the Dr effected
the dressing. He was conveyed to Mr Gibson's cottage on a shutter, and I fear will
...
... in clearing Coombanah Road, the tool slipt and cut the side and ball of the foot
in a frightful manner. The loss of blood was considerable before the Dr effected
the dressing. He was conveyed to Mr Gibson's cottage on a shutter, and I fear will
...
Page 138
... Cowen will take this one from Captain Briggs, at £20 - The pearls & brooches
are gone up to Sydney to be valued - and then I shall take the latter - I fear very
much that I have not the power of entertaining - for Margaret is most decidedly
tired ...
... Cowen will take this one from Captain Briggs, at £20 - The pearls & brooches
are gone up to Sydney to be valued - and then I shall take the latter - I fear very
much that I have not the power of entertaining - for Margaret is most decidedly
tired ...
Page 168
She has been living in the town of Port Fairy called Belfast but prefers the Bush.
She finds no one like me, so she says, but I don't believe her. I much fear this air
will be too keen for her, and she will not take the rest which the doctor says is the
...
She has been living in the town of Port Fairy called Belfast but prefers the Bush.
She finds no one like me, so she says, but I don't believe her. I much fear this air
will be too keen for her, and she will not take the rest which the doctor says is the
...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Anna Cook and Ellen Moger | 19 |
Louisa Clifton | 39 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | No place for a nervous lady: voices from the Australian bush |
| Author | Lucy Frost |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | McPhee Gribble, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 7 Apr 2009 |
| Length | 284 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / General History / Australia & New Zealand |
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