Can you hear the sea? : my grandmother's story /
Niall, Brenda,
Can you hear the sea? : my grandmother's story / by Brenda Niall. - Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2017. - 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Brenda Niall has turned her biographer's eye to a personal subject - her grandmother, Aggie. She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved a new country as a single woman, teaching in a country school, before marrying a Riverina grazier, whose large powerful family was wary of the newcomer with ideas of her own. Aggie dealt with hardships and loneliness after the early and drawn-out death of her husband, and brought up her seven children to be happy - all with a calm determination. But it was the memory box and her longing for the sea that captured the imagination of her granddaughter.
9781925498790 1925498794
Maguire, Agnes Jane.
Gorman, Agnes Jane, 1869-1953.
Maguire, Agnes Jane.
Teachers--Australia--Biography.
Immigrants--Australia--Biography.
Farm life.
Grandmothers.
Single women.
Women immigrants.
Biographies.
Grandmothers--Australia--Biography.
Single women--Australia--Biography.
Women immigrants--Australia--Biography.
Farm life--Australia--Biography.
Australia.
Australian
Biographies
Biography.
Biographies.
920.72
Can you hear the sea? : my grandmother's story / by Brenda Niall. - Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2017. - 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Brenda Niall has turned her biographer's eye to a personal subject - her grandmother, Aggie. She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved a new country as a single woman, teaching in a country school, before marrying a Riverina grazier, whose large powerful family was wary of the newcomer with ideas of her own. Aggie dealt with hardships and loneliness after the early and drawn-out death of her husband, and brought up her seven children to be happy - all with a calm determination. But it was the memory box and her longing for the sea that captured the imagination of her granddaughter.
9781925498790 1925498794
Maguire, Agnes Jane.
Gorman, Agnes Jane, 1869-1953.
Maguire, Agnes Jane.
Teachers--Australia--Biography.
Immigrants--Australia--Biography.
Farm life.
Grandmothers.
Single women.
Women immigrants.
Biographies.
Grandmothers--Australia--Biography.
Single women--Australia--Biography.
Women immigrants--Australia--Biography.
Farm life--Australia--Biography.
Australia.
Australian
Biographies
Biography.
Biographies.
920.72
