The Resource A room made of leaves : a novel, Kate Grenville
A room made of leaves : a novel, Kate Grenville
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The item A room made of leaves : a novel, Kate Grenville represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
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The item A room made of leaves : a novel, Kate Grenville represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
- Summary
- What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a longhidden box containing that memoir. What follows is a playful dance of possibilities between the real and the invented. Grenville's Elizabeth Macarthur is a passionate woman managing her complicated lifemarriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her own heart, the search for power in a society that gave her nonewith spirit, cunning and sly wit. Her memoir reveals the dark underbelly of the polite world of Jane Austen. It explodes the stereotype of the women of the past - devoted and docile, accepting of their narrow choices. That was their public face: here's what one of them really thought. At the heart of this book is one of the most toxic issues of our times: the seductive appeal of false stories. Beneath the surface of Elizabeth Macarthur's life and the violent colonial world she navigated are secrets and lies with the dangerous power to shape reality
- Language
- eng
- Label
- A room made of leaves : a novel
- Title
- A room made of leaves
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Kate Grenville
- Subject
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- Biographical fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Husband and wife -- Fiction
- Macarthur, Elizabeth, 1766-1850 -- Fiction
- Macarthur, Elizabeth, 1769-1850 -- Fiction
- Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Women -- Australia -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Macarthur, John, 1767-1834 -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- What if Elizabeth Macarthur - wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in early Sydney - had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a longhidden box containing that memoir. What follows is a playful dance of possibilities between the real and the invented. Grenville's Elizabeth Macarthur is a passionate woman managing her complicated lifemarriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her own heart, the search for power in a society that gave her nonewith spirit, cunning and sly wit. Her memoir reveals the dark underbelly of the polite world of Jane Austen. It explodes the stereotype of the women of the past - devoted and docile, accepting of their narrow choices. That was their public face: here's what one of them really thought. At the heart of this book is one of the most toxic issues of our times: the seductive appeal of false stories. Beneath the surface of Elizabeth Macarthur's life and the violent colonial world she navigated are secrets and lies with the dangerous power to shape reality
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- 1950-
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- Grenville, Kate
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- Macarthur, Elizabeth
- Macarthur, John
- Secrecy
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Husband and wife
- Women
- Australian fiction
- Australia
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- A room made of leaves : a novel, Kate Grenville
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
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- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9781922330024
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- A room made of leaves : a novel, Kate Grenville
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9781922330024
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
Subject
- Biographical fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Husband and wife -- Fiction
- Macarthur, Elizabeth, 1766-1850 -- Fiction
- Macarthur, Elizabeth, 1769-1850 -- Fiction
- Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Women -- Australia -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Macarthur, John, 1767-1834 -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
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