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Inside the 1800s, the first white farmers and graziers making their homes in the outback were joined up with by their wives, many of whom got no idea what lay in store. Planning on a tropical paradise, these feminine pioneers experienced instead conditions which would test, and frequently beat them; relentless temperature and dust particles, isolation, hostile animals, the risk of rape and assault, no medical facilities and neverending, backbreaking work. The outback was, based on the mantra of the day, 'no place for a woman', and yet many women without previous connection with hardship increased to the challenge, turning their skills to creating homes, nursing, farming, grazing - and saving their endeavours in diaries, which today give a startling picture of the hurdles they experienced. Great Pioneer Women of the Outback information Australia's women pioneers, from Jeannie Gunn, author of We of the Never Never, to lesser known figures like Atlanta Bradshaw and Evelyn Maunsell. Building on her behalf understanding of Australian women's record, Susanna de Vries's e book records the remarkable grit and dedication it took to construct what many today would consider an ordinary life.
