Daughters of Midas: Pioneer Women of the Eastern Goldfields

WEST AUSTRALIANA / MINING / Aboriginal –

Biographical history of the women settlers of the Eastern goldfields during the first two decades of European settlement (1888-1914) – includes passing references to contacts with Aboriginal people.

• • Goldfield women of the 1888-1914 period. Includes are stories of first arrivals, pioneer nurses, female doctors, first brides, miners’ wives, early feminists, pastoralists, barmaids, entertainers and prostitutes.

• The author combines her own rich personal knowledge and insight of Goldfields’ life with her thorough research to make an important contribution to the history of the Western Australian Goldfields.

• viii, 180 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cm.
• Bibliography: p. 169-171.
• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
  • Settlement and contacts – Colonisation – 1851-
  • Settlement and contacts – Settlers
  • History – Biographies – Non-Indigenous
  • Mining industry – Gold
  • Sex relations – Prostitution
  • Kalgoorlie-Boulder (SE WA Goldfields SH51-09)
  • Leonora (SE WA Goldfields SH51-01)
  • Coolgardie (SE WA Goldfields SH51-09)

  Subject:

  • Women — Western Australia — Eastern Goldfields — History
  • Women — Western Australia — Eastern Goldfields — Biography
  • Eastern Goldfields (W.A.) — History
  • Eastern Goldfields (W.A.) — Biography

#240815/0619/0221/230125/140625 First Edition. Signed by Author.