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Travel back to 1923 and experience the early days of group settlement in Northcliffe, a real town in the forest country in the south-west of Western Australia.
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Imaginary settlers, Maggie Spencer, her husband Bill and their two children, go out there from England with a group of other settlers, who must clear the land of trees and make their farms from scratch. They were settled in groups to help one another. It was back-breaking work, bringing both joys and sorrows |
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This is a novella (only 57 pages long) written as part of a project by the people of Northcliffe to set up a Sculpture and Arts walk as a tourist attraction. It has a limited print run of only 500 copies. It was fascinating researching the history and finding out what life would be like for those settlers - very different from life in England. The story especially focuses on Maggie, who is an imaginary person but who is, I hope, representative of the strong women who helped found the town. |
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This book can be obtained from the Australian Online Bookshop, who will send it anywhere in the world. |
| ‘Group Settler’s Wife’ © Anna Jacobs 2006 ISBN097756780X |