'Pre-suffrage female biographies are relatively uncommon. Source material is thin on the ground, frequently limited to entries in the registries of births, deaths and marriages, or brief reports in newspapers, if they were unfortunate enough to be the victims or perpetrators of criminal offences. For Ginger's story, the authors located a rich source of material in her two-volume memoirs, research papers and letters, and other family documents lodged at the Mitchell Library in Sydney.' (Introduction)
