Elizabeth and John
The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm
Published on 1. November 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-1-74223-756-5 (ISBN)
Description
A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia's most respected historians. Arriving in 1790, Elizabeth and John Macarthur, both aged 23, were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, within three years of the initial invasion. John Macarthur soon became famous in New South Wales and beyond as a wool pioneer, a politician, and a builder of farms at Parramatta and Camden. For a long time, Elizabeth's life was regarded as contingent on John's and, more recently, John's on Elizabeth's.
In Elizabeth and John, Alan Atkinson, the prizewinning author of Europeans in Australia, draws on his work on the Macarthur family over the last 50 years to explore the dynamics of a strong and sinewy marriage, and family life over two generations. With the truth of John and Elizabeth Macarthur's relationship much more complicated and more deeply human than other writers have suggested, Atkinson provides a finely drawn portrait of a powerful partnership.
In Elizabeth and John, Alan Atkinson, the prizewinning author of Europeans in Australia, draws on his work on the Macarthur family over the last 50 years to explore the dynamics of a strong and sinewy marriage, and family life over two generations. With the truth of John and Elizabeth Macarthur's relationship much more complicated and more deeply human than other writers have suggested, Atkinson provides a finely drawn portrait of a powerful partnership.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney, NSW
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1143 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-74223-756-5 (9781742237565)
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Person
Alan Atkinson is a historian with postgraduate degrees from the University of Sydney, University of Dublin, Trinity College, and the Australian National University. He has taught at Murdoch University, the University of Western Australia and the University of New England over a period of more than 30 years. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Visiting Fellow at the universities of Cambridge, London and Melbourne and at the Australian National University. Atkinson is the author of Europeans in Australia, volumes I-III (volume III won the Victorian Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History).