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The House of Blue Grass (Alan Atkinson, NewSouth)

Tuesday, 20 January 2026    Books+Publishing
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Alan Atkinson’s The House of Blue Glass is ostensibly a biography about Penelope Lucas, “the first well-educated woman to travel from Europe to Australia without the ‘protection’ of a husband or brother”. She was born in 1769 and came to Australia in 1805, where she was a governess and accountant...

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