Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World

AUTHOR’S NOTE

1 The Lost Comforts of Home

2 An Ill-advised Marriage

3 Honour and a Small Victory

4 From the Neptune to the Scarborough

5 The Tempestuous Southern Ocean

6 Heavenly Bodies, Botany and Piano Lessons

7 A Change in Fortune

8 Elizabeth Farm

9 Babies, Bluster and Boasting

10 Pistols at Twenty Paces

11 Managing Alone

12 The King’s Merinos

13 Malignant Falsehoods

14 Rebellion and Consequences

16 Bad Debts and Sharp Words

17 Frontier Bloodshed

19 Headaches and Public Humiliations

20 The End of a Marriage

21 Family Feuds

22 The ‘Dear Old Lady’

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX