The Oxford Book of Australian Letters

Niall, Brenda

Oxford University Press

The full story of Georgiana Hundy McCrae, illegitimate daughter of a Scottish duke, a professional portrait painter in 1820s Edinburgh and a settler's wife in early Melbourne, is here told for the first time.By allowing Georgiana's own voice to be heard through her letters and journals Brenda Niall has brought a legendary colonial figure into authentic, vibrant life. As a career study of a woman painter who was ahead of her time in her professional ambitions, as a story of the personal cost of colonial displacement, and as a portrait of a stormy marriage, Georgiana is compelling reading.

Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer (Miegunyah Press Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Clemente, Caroline

Historical

Melbourne University Press

After a childhood among artists, French émigrés and English radicals in Regency London, Georgiana lived as a young woman at her father's castle in the Highlands. A gifted portraitist, professionally trained in London, she earned her own living in Edinburgh before making the choice between marriage and a career. After marrying Andrew McCrae in 1830 she followed her husband in his erratic progress from Edinburgh to London and then to Port Phillip, where he was successively lawyer, squatter and goldfields magistrate. The varied fortunes of the McCraes are recounted in a story whose tragic elements are counter-balanced by the strength of mind, the lively wit and creativity of Georgiana. By allowing Georgiana's own voice to be heard through her letters and journals Brenda Niall has brought a legendary colonial figure into authentic vibrant life.

Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae, Painter, Diarist, Pioneer

Arts & Photography

Painting

Retracing footsteps to explore profound and intriguing questions, this personal memoir discusses the pleasures of biographical discovery and the pitfalls—technical, personal, and moral—of entering other people's lives. This deeply personal account of a biographer's life includes the adventures of childhood, convent education, university studies, and a late-blooming writing career. 

Life Class: The Education of a Biographer

Memoirs

Melbourne University Publishing

The extraordinary story of a woman who overcame living in the shadow of the holocaust to become one of Australia's most celebrated artists, told by Australia's most awarded biographer.

Judy Cassab: A Portrait

Arts & Literature

Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited

True North: The Story Of Mary And Elizabeth Durack

Community & Culture

The Text Publishing Company

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