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' Ildikó Dömötör’s “Gentlewomen in the Australian bush,” is about nineteenth century English women in the Australian wilderness. Looking at little known letters, diaries and travelogues by women, she illuminates the emotional obstacles and social restrictions genteel women had to face , and those aspects of early colonial life about which mainstream writings remained particularly silent. ' (From introduction)