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Books
Following is a brief list of books that women might want to read as back-ground information.
  • "S'pose I Die" (Evelyn Maunsell) by Hector Holthouse (Fantastic!) From prolific writer Hector Holthouse, this is the story of a well to do English girl arriving in Northern Australia in 1912 to marry into the rough and ready lifestyle of an Australian cattle station.
  • "We of the Never, Never" by Mrs. Aeneus Gunn. The book begins with The Maluka and The Little Missus arriving in Darwin on their way to the cattle station he will manage. There the local women are astounded that Mrs. Gunn, until now a woman of refinement and culture, intends to accompany her husband into such an inhospitable country.
  • "Classic Australian Short Stories" as collected by Maggie Pinkney; Five Mile Press 2001
    • Barbara Baynton
    • Henry Lawson
    • Edward Dyson
    • Steele Rudd
    • Marcuss Clarke
    • (all of the above mainly late 19th century)
  • "Tales of Australian Pioneer Women" by Eve Pownall
  • "The Territory" by Ernestine Hill (1951)
  • "Craft for a Dry Lake" by Kim Mahood
  • "A Fortunate Life" by A. B. Facey. This is an autobiography written by Albert Facey, but has some interesting information on his grandmother.
  • Go to Dymocks, etc, in the Australian Section for lots more.
Websites
WHAT IS A PIONEER WOMAN?
National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame, Collections Policy by curator, Pauline Cockrill: A pioneer woman is considered any woman who is a pioneer in her chosen field; referring not only to the traditional meaning of the word - a colonist, explorer or settler in a new land but to anyone who is an innovator or developer of something new. This means that we should not only commemorate those women who were the early settlers in Australia, who battled through considerable hardships; but also those who have attained pioneering achievements such as the first women doctors, lawyers, aviators etc.
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