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A hard cover edition with maroon boards, gilt lettering and unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. There is wear, rubbing and tearing to the edges of the dust cover. There is a piece missing from the dust jacket at the bottom left hand front corner of the dust jacket near the spine.There is a piece missing from the top edge of the spine of the dust jacket. There is foxing and toning throughout but the text and black and white photographs and drawings are clear and legible.
Now in a clear, removable cover to protect from damage.
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Sydney NSW
Publication Date: 1966
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Born in Melbourne in 1870, the author ran a school with her sisters between 1889 and 1896, after which she worked as a visiting teacher. In 1901 she married the pastoralist Aeneas Gunn, and together they travelled to live on an outlying station east of Mataranka in the Northern Territory. After her husband’s death in 1903, Jeannie Gunn returned to Melbourne, where she wrote The Little Black Princess, based on the early life of an Aboriginal child at Elsey Station.
“Bett-Bett must have been a Princess, for she was a King’s niece, and if that does not make a Princess of any one, it ought to do so! // She didn’t sit – like fairy-book princesses – waving golden sceptres over devoted subjects, for she was just a little bush nigger girl or ‘lubra,’ about eight years old. She had, however, a very wonderful palace – the great lonely Australian bush.”
| Weight | 0.330 kg |
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