Caroline's dilemma : a colonial inheritance saga

Bradbury, Bettina, 1949- author.

Book 2020

"Caroline Kearney faced a heartbreaking dilemma. In Melbourne, Australia, 1865, Caroline became a thirty-one-year-old widow and mother of six. Her husband's will, which she hoped would include legal rights to his sheep station, demanded something else entirely: to receive any money, Caroline would have to leave Australia and live in a house of her brothers-in-law's choosing in Ireland - a nation she had never visited. Her husband and his family -...

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Australia History 1788-1900

Inheritance and succession Australia History 19th century

Kearney, Caroline, 1834-1886

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Women Australia 19th century Biography