Can you hear the sea? : my grandmother's story / by Brenda Niall.
Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2017.Description: 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits ; 22 cmISBN:- 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
- 920.72 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 920.72 NIA | Available | 067379 |
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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.