A Woman For All Seasons
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A Woman For All Seasons is a novel written by Australian authoress Elizabeth Haran
and published in 2001 by Bastei Lübbe Verlag.
“. They can talk to the teacher in a class room hundreds of miles away. School work is sent out in the post.
This book is published in German and Russian.
Elizabeth Haran
Elizabeth Haran was born in 1954 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and migrated to Australia as a child. She has written twelve novels set in Australia and is currently working on the thirteenth. In the Valley of the Flaming Sun, published in 2007, spent eleven weeks on the German magazine "Der Spiegel" best...
and published in 2001 by Bastei Lübbe Verlag.
Synopsis
After being fired from every position she has held in England, Nola Grayson, a woman with revolutionary ideas on teaching, is hired as a teacher/governess to the Hartford children on Reinhart Station in outback Australia, or so she thought. When she arrives, she finds out a man was expected, and she is told to return home. Determined to stay, she has to fight the prejudices of the station owner and the children’s father, two men with dark secrets, as well as the elements of a drought stricken land. She also has to bond with the Hartford children and deal with cattle rustlers and being kidnapped by a tribal aborigine.Background information
This book is set in Queensland’s Gulf Country. It is not uncommon for governesses to be hired on outback stations, but nowadays the children can do school work over the radio, with “School of the AirSchool of the Air
School of the Air is a generic term for correspondence schools catering for the primary and early secondary education of children in remote and outback Australia.-History:...
“. They can talk to the teacher in a class room hundreds of miles away. School work is sent out in the post.
Foreign language editions
The following is a list of foreign language editions of the novel. This is not list of foreign language Wikipedias with an article on the novel, but merely editions in which the novel was printed.This book is published in German and Russian.