y separately published work icon Theirs to Bestow single work   novel   historical fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 1979... 1979 Theirs to Bestow
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Notes

  • Dedication: To my great-granddaughter, Jennifer Sally Adams.

  • Author's note: Although the characters in this book are not entirely fictitious and the incidents are true according to stories handed down, readers are also assured that no particular family has been portrayed.

  • Title page verso: Adapted from Behold, New Holland! (1940) and New Holland Heritage (1941).
  • Single novel of three parts: 'A Colony Is Born', 'The Gates are Opened', and 'A New Order'.

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y separately published work icon Behold, New Holland! : (A Story of Early Western Australia) Rix Weaver , Perth : Paterson's Press , 1940 Z962515 1940 single work novel historical fiction
y separately published work icon New Holland Heritage : (An Early West Australian Romance) Rix Weaver , Perth : Paterson's Press , 1941 Z962519 1941 single work novel historical fiction romance 'In Behold New Holland Mrs Weaver followed the fortunes of the Mabie family who came to Western Australia as pioneers of the new settlement at Swan River. In New Holland Heritage she continues the study of the family through the Australind period and into the years when Western Australia became a convict settlement.' (Source: J. S. Battye, Foreword)
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