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Victoria, The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Press, 2001. first limited edition - h/c in d.j. While researching this book the author made extensive use of letters, diaries and family papers in libraries and archives in Switzerland, Scotland and Australia. These reveal the private feelings of eleven very different women: some longed constantly to go home; others found unexpected pleasures in their vice-regal duties, and recorded detailed and sometimes humourous reflections on colonial life. 250 x 180mm., pp. xxii + 324, b/w plates, index, limited edition of 1,250 copies, h/c in d.j., fine/fine.