My Dear Miss Macarthur: The Recollections of Emmeline Maria Macarthur (1828-1911)
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Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, Shipping costs to: USA.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Chilton Books.
Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1988. 0864172036. 1st edition. "It is hard for a city-dweller anywhere in the world to imagine the roughness of life in Australia in the first half of the nineteenth century. This however is the rare story of an Australian girl almost the same age as Queen Victoria, born in the 1820s to a life of relative ease - in the first decade when the basic necessities of domestic could begin to be relied upon, the threat of starvation through failed harvests had receded and money and goods had begun to circulate." 24.5cms x 18.5cms. Pp.128,signed by the author to title page, black & white portrait frontispiece with other occasional portraits and illustrations of letters throughout,family tree endpapers, gift inscribed from the author to half-title page. Maroon cloth slightly rubbed to base of spine, dustwrapper has minor edge wear, now in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG. .

Lieferung aus: Australien, Shipping costs to: USA.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Good Reading Second Hand Books.
Kenthurst NSW: Kangaroo Press, 1988. "Colonial female painter and drawer of the famous Macarthur family who documented her life in pictures that are now missing. Fortunately she refers to these works in her memoirs of a life that included two husbands. sketcher, fifth of the six daughters of Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur and Anna Macarthur, née King, and a sister of Anna , Charles and James , was named after her cousin Emmeline Emily Macarthur ( Parker ). She spent her childhood at the family home, The Vineyard, on the Parramatta River, New South Wales. In her 'Recollections and letters 1860-1894´ written in old age (1909), Emmeline relates a story about a particularly bad bush-fire which she and her younger sister Emma Jane witnessed and which Emmeline subsequently drew: '[we] dragged our mattresses on to the Upper Colonnade, and spent the night of Easter Eve, watching the most splendid fireworks at a distance … The trees on the right of my watercolour presented our spectacle on the safe side of the stream´. The whereabouts of this or any other of her sketches is not known. On 2 December 1860, in All Saints´ Church of England, Parramatta, Emmeline married George Farquhar Leslie. After his death she married Vigant de Falbe, a commander in the Royal Danish Navy, with whom she had two sons. She died at Elm Cottage, Cheltenham, England, on 23 December 1911, aged eighty-three." (Design and Art Australia Online) Please check with us for an accurate postage cost, the book weighs under 500 grams.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Good Reading Secondhand Books [658245], Benalla, Australia.
"Colonial female painter and drawer of the famous Macarthur family who documented her life in pictures that are now missing. Fortunately she refers to these works in her memoirs of a life that included two husbands. sketcher, fifth of the six daughters of Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur and Anna Macarthur, née King, and a sister of Anna , Charles and James , was named after her cousin Emmeline Emily Macarthur ( Parker ). She spent her childhood at the family home, The Vineyard, on the Parramatta River, New South Wales. In her 'Recollections and letters 1860-1894´ written in old age (1909), Emmeline relates a story about a particularly bad bush-fire which she and her younger sister Emma Jane witnessed and which Emmeline subsequently drew: '[we] dragged our mattresses on to the Upper Colonnade, and spent the night of Easter Eve, watching the most splendid fireworks at a distance The trees on the right of my watercolour presented our spectacle on the safe side of the stream´. The whereabouts of this or any other of her sketches is not known. On 2 December 1860, in All Saints´ Church of England, Parramatta, Emmeline married George Farquhar Leslie. After his death she married Vigant de Falbe, a commander in the Royal Danish Navy, with whom she had two sons. She died at Elm Cottage, Cheltenham, England, on 23 December 1911, aged eighty-three." (Design and Art Australia Online) Please check with us for an accurate postage cost, the book weighs under 500 grams. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Goulds Book Arcade.
Kenhurst: Kangaroo Press, 1988 The dust jacket has minor wear. 128 pages with a few b&w photographs,.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney [2899716], Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
The dust jacket has minor wear. 128 pages with a few b&w photographs, Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).