Colonial Consorts. The Wives Of Victoria's Governors 1839-1900

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Publisher Place: Carlton
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: First Edition

Description: 324 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Carrying out the duties of a governors 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. While researching Colonial Consorts, Marguerite Hancock made extensive use of letters, diaries, and family papers in libraries and archives in Switzerland, Scotland and Australia.

ISBN: 9780522849332