Mary Ann & Captain Piper : the remarkable true story of the convicts' daughter who became the toast of colonial Sydney / Jessica North.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Whakaahuatanga: xiv, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), 2 maps, 1 genealogical table ; 24 cmContent type:- text
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- unmediated
- volume
- 9781760879433
- Mary Ann and Captain Piper
- 994.02092 23
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Nonfiction | Stratford Nonfiction | Nonfiction | 920 NOR (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | A00905057 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Born on Norfolk Island to First Fleet convicts, Mary Ann was destined to become a farmer's wife. Instead, at the age of fourteen she entranced the island's Commandant, the charming and flirtatious Captain Piper. Learning how to behave as a lady, and overcoming the stigma of her origins, Mary Ann became mistress of the colony's grandest home when Sydney was just becoming a party town. With scores of servants, she and Captain Piper entertained on a scale that had never been seen in the colonies, hosting magnificent garden parties, dinners and balls for hundreds of guests, including governors of New South Wales. But the Pipers were living beyond their means, and trouble was around the corner. Mary Ann's life journey from barefoot child to Sydney's fashionable society encompasses triumphs, tragedies and travels around the globe. For the first time, Jessica North's biography reveals Mary Ann Piper to be one of the most remarkable women in Australia's early history.
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