Three Of A Kind

This is a biography of three remarkable women from one Australian family, set against the social and economic background of their time.

From successive generations, living and working between 1850 and 1920, each was talented, resolute and spirited; each had a career at a time when careers for women were rare.

Susan Brown, born 1819, was a successful actress for sixty-three years; her daughter Harriet Wooldridge acted briefly then bore a large family; her granddaughter Mary Card was a teacher, writer and finally a hugely successful designer of crochet patterns, known world-wide.
Barbara Jefferis, better known for her nine published novels, here brings the lives of these women into close focus, revealing how they have been neglected in recorded histories but showing how their individual lives, when explored are full of interest and implications.