Dear Quentin

Dear Quentin
Author: Quentin Bryce
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2017-04-03
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0522871178

As Australia's first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce handwrote more than fifty letters each week. She wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her from palaces to outback schools, from war zones to memorials, from intimate audiences to lavish ceremonies. She received even more letters from every corner of the country. Generous, witty and always heartfelt, her letter-writing skills were honed at boarding school, from where she would write to her parents every Sunday. Dear Quentin is a rich collection of the letters the Governor-General wrote and received during her six-year term to prime ministers Rudd and Gillard, VC Mark Donaldson, pals Anne Summers and Wendy McCarthy, Indigenous elders, war vets, Girl Guides, grandchildren, as well as the proud owner of a calf called Quentin. Royalties from this book will be donated to Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, making a real difference to child health through world-leading research and disease prevention.

Governor William Bradford's Letter Book

Governor William Bradford's Letter Book
Author: William Bradford
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 1557095809

Gathered during Plymouth Colony's crucial first decade, Bradford's Letter Book served as a sourcebook for the Governor's well-known history, "Of Plymouth Plantation." This intriguing set of letters and documents offers us valuable first-hand acquaintance with the leadership of New England's first plantation. From this collection, we can better appreciate the complex reality that lies behind our idealized image of "the Pilgrim Fathers." Here we can see the conflicting motives and internal struggles, the misunderstandings and misrepresentations, and the practical considerations which combined to shape the lives of the early Plymouth colonists.

Governors' Wives in Colonial Australia

Governors' Wives in Colonial Australia
Author: Anita Selzer
Publisher: National Library Australia
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0642107351

"The lives of five vice-regal women who accompanied their husbands to the Australian colonies during the nineteenth century are examined in Governors' wives in colonial Australia: Eliza Darling, New South Wales, 1825-1831; Jane Franklin, Van Diemen's Land, 1837-1843; Mary Anne Broome, Western Australia, 1883-1889; Elizabeth Loch, Victoria, 1884-1889; Audrey Tennyson, South Australia, 1899-1903"--Page 2

I Love You, Ronnie

I Love You, Ronnie
Author: Nancy Reagan
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2002-02-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0375760512

No matter what else was going on in his life or where he was—traveling to make movies, at the White House, or sometimes just across the room—Ronald Reagan wrote letters to Nancy Reagan, to express his love, thoughts, and feelings, and to stay in touch. Through these extraordinary letters and reflections, the private character and life of an American president and his first lady are revealed. Nancy Reagan reflects with love and insight on the letters, on her husband, and on the many phases of their life together. A love story spanning half a century and the private life of this classic American couple come vividly alive in this rare and inspiring book.

Winston and Clementine

Winston and Clementine
Author: Mary Soames
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 772
Release: 2001-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780618082513

More than 800 intimate letters between Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, are presented in this collection that provides a glimpse into the couple's ardent and playful lifelong love and offers a sweeping yet accessible view of British politics in the 20th century. Edited by the youngest, and last surviving, child of the Churchills. An "L.A. Times" Best Book of the Year. Photos.

Governor's Wife

Governor's Wife
Author: Lynn Medley
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1634170415

Since childhood, Mary Catherine “Hallie” Stiles, daughter of a US marshal, has been a difficult girl to tame. She is headstrong and has her preferred way of doing things, which, more than occasionally, appears unconventional to public scrutiny. However, her affluent heritage establishes for her a future in the world of politics and high society. Jody Simpson is orphaned at early age and is left to take care of her younger sister, whose untimely passing leaves Jody without family and determines her independent and loner nature. Quite appropriately, she ends up in the employ of law enforcement as an efficient tracker, the only female one that Denver has seen. The two women’s lives change completely the day their paths cross. These events are witnessed by Alma, who is gifted with the ability to preview their fates. But Alma can only watch in feeble anguish as the destinies of Hallie and Jody are gradually revealed.

The Palace Letters

The Palace Letters
Author: Professor Jenny Hocking
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781922310248

What role did the queen play in the governor-general Sir John Kerr's plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, which unleashed one of the most divisive episodes in Australia's political history? And why weren't we told? Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence, the letters between the queen and the governor-general about the dismissal have been locked away for decades in the National Archives of Australia, and embargoed by the queen potentially forever. This ruse has furthered the fiction that the queen and the Palace had no warning of or role in Kerr's actions. In the face of this, Professor Jenny Hocking embarked on a four-year legal battle to force the Archives to release the letters. In 2015, she mounted a crowd-funded campaign, securing a stellar pro bono team that took her case all the way to the High Court of Australia. Now, drawing on never-before-published material from Kerr's archives and her submissions to the court, Hocking traces the collusion and deception behind the dismissal, and charts the private role of High Court judges, the queen's private secretary, and the leader of the opposition, Malcolm Fraser, in Kerr's actions, and the prior knowledge of the queen and Prince Charles. Hocking also reveals the obstruction, intrigue, and duplicity she faced, raising disturbing questions about the role of the National Archives in preventing access to its own historical material and in enforcing royal secrecy over its documents.