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Colonial Consorts: Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839-1900 Hardcover - 2001

by Marguerite Hancock


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  • Title Colonial Consorts: Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839-1900
  • Author Marguerite Hancock
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Melbourne University, Melbourne
  • Date 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780522849332 / 0522849334
  • Weight 2.35 lbs (1.07 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.88 x 7.24 x 1.08 in (25.10 x 18.39 x 2.74 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Australia - History - 1788-1900, Governors' spouses - Australia - Victoria -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002391527
  • Dewey Decimal Code 994.503

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Marguerite Hancock has been secretary to the wives of three governors of Victoria. Her book is derived from an M.A. thesis at the University of Melbourne.
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Carlton South, VIC, Australia: Miegunyah Press (Melbourne University Press), 2001. xxii, + 324pp. plus 12 page colour plate section. B/white illustrations intext. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Plain cream boards negligibly shelf-rubbed. Previous owner's concise gift inscription to ffep., else leaves clean and unmarked. Portrait-illustrated dustjacket softly edge-creased, plus a tiny closed tear to lower edge of rear panel. From the jacket flap: "Carrying out the duties of a governor's wife was the pinnacle of public service for women in colonial Australia. Victoria had ten British governors during the nineteenth century, and all were married men. (One of them, Sir Henry Barkly, was married twice). Their wives accompanied them to Melbourne as a matter of course, forced to leave behind their homes, their extended families and sometimes their school-age children . . . Marguerite Hancock made extensive use of letters, diaries and family papers in libraries and archives… Read More
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Victoria, The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Press first limited edition - h/c in d.j. While researching this book the author made extensive use of letters, diaries and family papers in libraries and archives in Switzerland, Scotland and Australia. These reveal the private feelings of eleven very different women: some longed constantly to go home; others found unexpected pleasures in their vice-regal duties, and recorded detailed and sometimes humourous reflections on colonial life. 250 x 180mm., pp. xxii + 324, b/w plates, index, limited edition of 1,250 copies, h/c in d.j., fine/fine. ISBN: 0522849334
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