Petticoat Pioneers. 3 x Books, One, Two and Three.

Auction for all 3 books includes postage. Petticoat Pioneers. 3 xB ooks, One, Two and Three.

Book One Petticoat Pioneers: North Island Women of the Colonial Era; Hardcover,scuffed edges, name inside. Dust jacket scuffed edges, small closed tear to edge ISBN 9780589011345 Publisher: A.H. & A.W. Reed Ltd, Wellington, 1978 Book one of Miriam Macgregor's 'Petticoat Pioneer" series of three volumes It deals with early women pioneers in alphabetical order, beginning with the Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, a French nun who came to NZ in 1860 and devoted her life to the care and education of the Maori people, the aged and other welfare work. She died in 1926. The biographies, which total 54, conclude with Alice Sweetman Wilson, who died of injuries after being attacked by Hauhau in Hawkes Bay in 1868. Her husband and two young children also died in the attack and one son, eight years old Jimmie, was the only survivor.The area covered by the biogs is mainly that of the central East Coast of the North Island and includes Maori women and early settler womenfolk. Usually eac

Book2 Petticoat Pioneers: Bk. 2 by Macgregor, Miriam Hardcover, scuffed edges, name inside. Dust jacket sun faded, scuffed edges, small pieces missing from edges ISBN 9780589009274 Publisher: Reed, New Zealand, Wellington, 1975

Book 3 Hardcover inscription inside, edges bumped, with Dust Jacket four inch tear and scuffed chiped edges otherwise clean and bright, First Edition 1980, black and White Photographs, illustrations, 248 Pages, Published By Reed Wellington. ISBN: 0589013106

'The South Island provides a wealth of opportunities for new immigrants in the 1900s- if they were enterprising. The forty women portrayed here, who settled from Nelson to Bluff, certainly possessed this quality in abundance; without it they surely would never have survived.

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