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Aussie Readers
Books mentioned in this topic
Seven Little Australians (other topics)We of the Never Never (other topics)
The Harp in the South (other topics)
The Shepherd's Hut (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
Ethel Turner (other topics)Jeannie Gunn (other topics)
Ruth Park (other topics)
Tim Winton (other topics)
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19th century Australia: Captain Woolcot, having lost his wife tragically young, remarried a much younger woman to provide his six children with a new mother. Together, they had another child, making seven. The Captain felt it was necessary to run the family with army discipline, but his rules and regulations were no match for the fun loving children, led by the redoubtable Judy.
In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel to the depths of the Northern Territory, where her husband had been appointed manager of ‘The Elsey’, a large cattle station. One of the very few white women in the area, she was at first resented by people on and around the station, till her warmth and spirit won their affection and respect.
The Harp in the South is a nostalgic and moving portrait of the eventful family life of the Darcys of Number Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street in Surry Hills, a Sydney slum. There grow the bitter-sweet first and last loves of Roie Darcy, who becomes a woman too quickly amid the brothels and the razor gangs, the tenements and the sly-grog shops.
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