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Issue Details: First known date: 1915-1928... 1915-1928 Memoirs
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The memoirs of Mary Emily Sussannah Hunter, known as 'Minnie' is 'a detailed account of the Hunter family's history and of the early days in Australia of her father and uncles; describes her childhood in the Barrabool Hills, Victoria, youth in the south east of South Australia, especially at Penola and Robe, and later experiences in South Gippsland and St. Kilda; and chronicles the social lives of relatives and friends up to about the year 1906.' Source: State Library of Victoria

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      Victoria,: ca. 1915-1928 .
      Extent: 6 v.p.
      (Manuscript) assertion

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      Held at: State Library of Victoria
      Location: MS BOX 299/9-10
      Local Id: MS 13262
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My Mate Ellen : Cross-Cultural Friendship Between Women in a Pioneer Memoir Victoria Haskins , Shannon Schedlich-Day , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , May no. 85 2010; (p. 70-82) Brewers 'memoirs demonstratre a number of pertinent themes that enlarge and revise previous understandings of fronier relations and, the genre of the pioneer narrative. Historians have concluded that friendships between settler and Indigenous women were rare...Minnie Brewer's memoirs provide a unique insight into the relationships between white and Aboriginal women in colonial NSW...Minnie's recollections caution us to hesitate drawing conclusions on women's cross-cultural relationships...' Source: La Trobe Journal no. 85, May 2010
My Mate Ellen : Cross-Cultural Friendship Between Women in a Pioneer Memoir Victoria Haskins , Shannon Schedlich-Day , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: The La Trobe Journal , May no. 85 2010; (p. 70-82) Brewers 'memoirs demonstratre a number of pertinent themes that enlarge and revise previous understandings of fronier relations and, the genre of the pioneer narrative. Historians have concluded that friendships between settler and Indigenous women were rare...Minnie Brewer's memoirs provide a unique insight into the relationships between white and Aboriginal women in colonial NSW...Minnie's recollections caution us to hesitate drawing conclusions on women's cross-cultural relationships...' Source: La Trobe Journal no. 85, May 2010
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Subjects:
  • Victoria,
  • South Australia,
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