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Inside the 1890s, whenever a woman's role was viewed as marrying well and elevating a family group, Daisy Bates reinvented herself from humble governess to heiress-traveller and 'woman of science'. She'd become one of the best-known & most controversial ethnologists ever sold, and one of the first people to put Aboriginal culture on the map. Created into rough circumstances, Daisy's prospects were dim; her daddy an alcoholic bootmaker, her mom dying of consumption when Daisy was only four years of age. Through sheer self-discipline, young Daisy overcame her miserable start, and in 1883 she migrated to Australia with a boatload of orphans, transferring herself off as an heiress who trained for fun. Relationship used - first with the young Breaker Morant, then bigamously with two other husbands. For many years she led a dual life. But who was simply the real Daisy Bates? While other biographies have shown her as a saint, historian Susanna de Vries gives readers a far more complex portrait of the 'Queen of the Never Never'.
