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Looking for Rose Paterson: How Family Bush Life Nurtured Banjo the Poet.
by Gall, Jennifer; Paterson, Rose
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 064227892X
- ISBN 13
- 9780642278920
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2017. Paperback large wide octavo, very good plus condition, thick card covers (with wide flaps), black & white text-photos, colour photos (most full-page), sepia (brown-tinted) photos, minor edgewear, faint sticker mark rear cover. Heavy (1.0 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 200 pp. This book by Jennifer Gall contains the candid letters that Rose Paterson wrote to her younger sister Nora Murray-Prior. Rose was to mother of famous port Banjo Paterson. The odd, the unexpected, the humorous, the tragic and the shocking are all part of her story. Rose spent the best part of her life at Illalong, an isolated sheep station in western New South Wales, where she brought up seven children in tough circumstances. Rose lived in a rustic world of late 19th-century pioneers, where women endured continuous cycles of pregnancy, childbirth and recovery, and the constraints of strict social codes. Her first child, Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson, was to gain fame as one of Australia's most popular poets. Rose's letters, rescued from oblivion by Banjo's biographer, reveal a woman devoted to her family, with strong powers of observation. This fascinating book tells Rose Paterson's story, and within the rhythm of her life, the bush childhood of Banjo Paterson. The author is a curator of the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41320
- Title
- Looking for Rose Paterson: How Family Bush Life Nurtured Banjo the Poet.
- Author
- Gall, Jennifer; Paterson, Rose
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 064227892X
- ISBN 13
- 9780642278920
- Publisher
- National Library of Australia
- Place of Publication
- Canberra
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- australian biography, literature, letters, rural, families, authors, poets, letters, new south wales (nsw), illalong
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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