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Mary Grant Bruce. Some extracts from Seven Little Billabongs by Brenda Niall

East Melbourne

  • 111 Hotham Street

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Acquisition number
968
Catalogue number
emvf0719
File name
VF0719
File location
Vertical file

The file contains photocopied extracts from Seven Little Billabongs by Brenda Niall. (Now out of print.)
1. 1 x A4 page: Cover
2. 12 x A4 pages: Chapter 2, "Mary Grant Bruce". Includes photo. In this chapter Brenda Niall states "It was probably late 1898 - her accounts of her departure vary - when Minnie Bruce left home for Melbourne. ... and during her first year at least she was able to board with her former teacher, Miss Beausire, who opened a school in Hotham Street, East Melbourne in 1899". The Sands & McDougall Post Office Directories list Miss Estelle Beausire at 111 Hotham Street 1900-1902.
3. 9 x A4 paages: Chapter 4, "Billabong Revisited"
4. 2 pages: List of Works of Mary Grant Bruce, and Bibliography.

Item type
File
Subject address
111 Hotham Street, East Melbourne
Number of pages
24

History of item

File compiled by Elizabeth Cam

Year acquired
2012

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