An All Consuming Passion: Origins, Modernity, and the Australian Life of Georgiana Molloy

WEST AUSTRALIANA Aboriginal Biography Flora –

Biography of Georgiana Molloy who settled in southwest Western Australia in 1830 and died in 1843; during her time in Western Australia she became a plant collector and her letters include references to the Nyungar; contact with Europeans; violent conflict; growing dependence on settlers and work for settlers.

First Edition.

• 398 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

  • Bibliography: p. 365-375.

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• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Race relations – Violent – Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. – To 1900
  • Settlement and contacts – Colonisation – 1788-1850
  • Noongar / Nyungar / Nyungah people (W41) (WA SI50)
  • Busselton / Geographe Bay (SW WA SI50-05)

  Subject:

  • Molloy, Georgiana, 1805-1843
  • Pioneers — Western Australia — Biography
  • Women pioneers — Western Australia — Biography
  • Botanists — Western Australia — Biography
  • Women botanists — Western Australia — Biography