Catherine
On Catherine Currie's Diaries, 1873-1908
- Hardcover
218 pages
- Release Date
11 October 1994
Summary
This simple and moving story brings us into direct contact with Catherine Currie on an uncleared pioneer selection in the forests of west Gippsland in the 1870s.
Catherine Currie began writing her diary at Ballan in 1873. Soon afterwards, she left with her husband and young children to take up a selection deep in the forests of west Gippsland.
Catherine’s life was one of unrelenting daily work, which she recorded faithfully in the diary. As the years wore on and her early pion…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522848366 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522848362 |
| Author: | Tony Dingle, Ailsa McLeary |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 218 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 11 October 1994 |
| Weight: | 463g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 150mm x 18mm |
| Series: | 24 COPIES EN ROUTE, NO MORE TO BE FOUND |
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About The Author
Tony Dingle
Ailsa McLeary was a tutor in the Department of Economic History at Monash University when she was seconded as an editor of a volume of the Bicentennial History of Australia, Australians 1888. She wrote two chapters for the book, and edited and wrote for the journal connected with the project. Moving to the Department of History at Monash, she edited the Monash ‘Publications in History’ Series, contributing the volume of essays Time and Place- Essays on Modern Culture. She now teaches at RMIT in the Faculty of Art, Design and Communication.
Tony Dingle teaches Economic History at Monash University. He has researched and published extensively in Australian and British history and his four books include Settling, volume 2 of The Victorians (1984); Aboriginal Economy- Patterns of Experience (1988); and Vital Connections- Melbourne and its Board of Works (1991).
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