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Page 82
A squall of wind and rain is so awful at this moment that as I write alone in my
room I could almost feel nervous. The roar of the wind is quite stunning and the
estuary is entirely concealed by the floods of rain. How thankful I feel that we are
...
A squall of wind and rain is so awful at this moment that as I write alone in my
room I could almost feel nervous. The roar of the wind is quite stunning and the
estuary is entirely concealed by the floods of rain. How thankful I feel that we are
...
Page 225
... grass here now after all this nice rain Butter is a shilling a pound here Oranges
are 6 pence dozen this is a great place for peaches every house you see here
has a lot of peach Trees and loaded with fruit and all looking so green and
healthy ...
... grass here now after all this nice rain Butter is a shilling a pound here Oranges
are 6 pence dozen this is a great place for peaches every house you see here
has a lot of peach Trees and loaded with fruit and all looking so green and
healthy ...
Page 236
Ma manages to cook a damper, pancakes, and meat outside. The piano which pa
and Jack brought the other week from Binnum is out in hail rain &c only a
tarpaulin over it. No room under iron for it. Pa and boys commenced building
chimney ...
Ma manages to cook a damper, pancakes, and meat outside. The piano which pa
and Jack brought the other week from Binnum is out in hail rain &c only a
tarpaulin over it. No room under iron for it. Pa and boys commenced building
chimney ...
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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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