The Accidental Heiress: - Journey of a Glencoe Squatter's Daughter

Author(s): John Berger; Carol Grbich

Australiana

It is hard to imagine that a little girl growing up on a frontier farm in the 1860's would one day rub shoulders with the King and Queen of England. Yet that is exactly what happened to Letitia Sarah Leake. She spent her childhood playing with boomerangs and Aboriginal children at Glencoe in South Australia and ended up living in luxary on an English estate. But she never forgot her Australian heritage. At the beginning of WWI, she gave her mansion and its estate to the Australian Government to use as a hospital for wounded ANZACs where she and her family helped in the convalescence of over 50,000 soldiers. 

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General Fields

  • : 9780646819228
  • : Carol Grbich
  • : Nation Trust of SA
  • : May 2020
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : John Berger; Carol Grbich
  • : Hardback