Petticoat Pioneers North Island Women of the Colonial Era. by Macgregor, Miriam Florence. Hardback 1st edition

Petticoat Pioneers. North Island Women of the Colonial Era. by Macgregor, Miriam Florence. 

Publisher: Reed , 1981.

Hardcover with jacket, rubbed and bumped edges with a scuff on spine, otherwise very good with no inscriptions. 
 Dust jacket scuffed ,chipped and creased with two small holes on spine.

The Men who first settled in the back country of 19th century New Zealand went out into the wilderness because they wanted to. But their wives and daughters had no option but to go with their men, and it is of these woman that Miriam MacGregor has written. She has compiled personal studies of 54 women of the Wairarapa, Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay areas and they include Maori and Pakeha, British and Scandinavian, married women and single, educated and barely literate, well-to-do and poorly off - a wide and representative cross-section of the period that begins with Elizabeth Colenso (1821-1904) and goes on into the 20th century when the last of these petticoat pioneers reached life's end. 

ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. 

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