Making Herstory

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Melbourne Books
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 226 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Spanning two centuries, Making Herstory is a unique window into the raw pioneer existence of Mary Ann Thwaites, her daughter Ethel, who grew up in the 1870s Victorian town of Queenscliff, and her granddaughter Theodora, who conquered the mens domain of the Tasmanian wilderness in the late 1930s.Alive with twists and connections, we wonder what Theos outspoken mother, Ethel, is hiding. Unravelling her secret brings an understanding of why her daughter took to hiking, mountaineering and skiing in Tasmania, never returning to seaside Queenscliff, where one of the most scenic and historically significant places was Thwaites Walk, named for the Thwaites men — Theos grandfather, uncles and cousins.This is a significant herstory. The voices of these women speak to us through letters, diaries, stories, newspapers and magazines, reverberating across time and changing with each location, adding to the often dismissed, but important, wealth of recorded female experience.

ISBN: 9781922129604