Remembered with Affection: Lady’s Broome’s Letters to Guy with A Short Life by Alexandra Hasluck (Second Hand Book)
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Description SECOND HAND BOOK – EX LIBRARY Remembered with Affection is a new edition by Alexandra Hasluck, of Lady Broome’s Letters to Guy, which she considers the best of Lady’s Broome’s many books. Lady Broome was a well-known writer in her own times and her letters to her son Guy in England are full of details of her everyday life as Governor’s wife in the early days of Western Australia. She is observant and her lively descriptions of her extensive tours with her husband through Western Australia are of interest to the historian. For Guy’s benefit she describes the wildflowers, the sand plains, the birds she sees, the aboriginals, and other things that attract her attention. Her good spirits and sense of the ridiculous, with her unflagging interest in what was around her make these letters delightful reading. Alexandra Hasluck, in her introduction, sets the period with additional information about Lady Broome’s life and times and about the politics of Western Australia during her husband’s term of office, which are ignored in the letters. Her annotations on the letters illuminate and add interest to them. Specifications: Condition: Fair. Ex library – has library stickers and stamps. Has general signs of wear and age on the exterior, yellowed and aged pages in the interior. Publisher: Oxford University Press Year: 1963 Format: Hardcover Pages: 137 IBSN: N/A
