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Elizabeth & John : the Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm / Alan Atkinson.

Elizabeth & John : the Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm / Alan Atkinson.
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ISBN 9781742237565
1742237568
Author Atkinson, Alan (author)
Title Elizabeth & John : the Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm / Alan Atkinson.
Cover title Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm
Publisher and/or associated date/s Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2022.
©2022.
Description xi, 500 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Arriving in 1790, Elizabeth and John Macarthur, both aged 23, were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, within three years of the initial invasion. John Macarthur soon became famous in New South Wales and beyond as a wool pioneer, a politician, and a builder of farms at Parramatta and Camden. For a long time, Elizabeth's life was regarded as contingent on John's and, more recently, John's on Elizabeth's. In Elizabeth and John, Alan Atkinson draws on his work on the Macarthur family over the last 50 years to explore the dynamics of a strong and sinewy marriage, and family life over two generations. With the truth of John and Elizabeth Macarthur's relationship much more complicated and more deeply human than other writers have suggested, Atkinson provides a finely drawn portrait of a powerful partnership.
Subjects Macarthur, Elizabeth, -- 1769-1850
Macarthur, John, -- 1767-1834
Macarthur family
Pioneers -- Australia -- Biography
Pioneers -- New South Wales -- Biography
Frontier and pioneer life -- New South Wales
Women pioneers -- New South Wales -- Biography
Sheep farming -- Australia
Sheep ranches -- Australia -- History
Farmers' spouses -- Australia -- History
Businessmen -- New South Wales -- Biography
Businesswomen -- New South Wales -- Biography
Wool industry -- Australia
New South Wales -- History
New South Wales -- Biography
Australia -- History -- 1788-1851
Call number 2022.233
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A00958167 2022.233
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