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BEATRICE'S COMMONSENSICAL APPROACH

MITSON MAUREEN

Editorial
INGRAM
Año edición
2015
ISBN
978-1-76041-001-8
Encuadernación
Rústica
Páginas
346
Idioma
Castellano
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Two women stepped from the steamship Orient onto Australian soil on a hot December day in 1879. Beatrice Beauchamp epitomises the younger middle-class English woman settler unused to the unpleasant. Yet she combats tragedy, and meets challenge and difference with a level of equanimity not commonly expected from one with a genteel upbringing. We share her despair and her fears as from the first day she must call on a personal strength and resolve previously untested. In that, she finds a staunch supporter in Mary Lee. Mrs Mary Lee has been written into many history books. Her political conviction, dedication and determination in campaigning for women s rights led to her being acknowledged by Premier Kingston as most influential in gaining South Australian women the right to vote and not only that, to take a seat in Parliament. Other states followed suit. Yet, despite all her achievements, little has been known of her personal life... Elizabeth Mansutti, former Chairperson of the SA Writers Centre, local hi

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