No Place for a Nervous Lady

Voices from the Australian Bush

by Lucy Frost

McPhee Gribble Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0869140760, black and white photographs, paperback

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, small minor staining to bottom back, no inscriptions, uncreased spine (see photographs)

“From Annie Baxter, writing to sustain herself through a miserable marriage to a military man and failed farmer, to Ellen Moger, whose letter to her parents told of the death of three of her four young children from starvation on the journey out, women wrote to keep in touch with their old lives and to make some kind of private sense of the new.  Yet all would have agreed with Annie Baxter when, after being bled with a penknife, she wrote for a friend, ‘Oh! Ye nervous ladies, never come to the bush!’
Lucy Frost has assembled a fascinating collection of unpublished and intimate letters and diary entries by thirteen nineteenth century Australian women whose experience were as diverse as the situations they found themselves in.”