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In her introduction Kate Grenville tells, tongue firmly in cheek, of discovering a long-hidden box containing that memoir. What follows is a playful <u class="showmore_hide">dance of possibilities between the real and the invented. Grenville's Elizabeth Macarthur is a passionate woman managing her complicated life-marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulses of her own heart, the search for power in a society that gave her none-with spirit, cunning and sly wit. Her memoir reveals the dark underbelly of the polite world of Jane Austen. It explodes the stereotype of the women of the past - devoted and docile, accepting of their narrow choices. That was their public face-here's what one of them really thought. At the heart of this book is one of the most toxic issues of our times - the seductive appeal of false stories. Beneath the surface of Elizabeth Macarthur's life and the violent colonial world she navigated are secrets and lies with the dangerous power to shape reality.</u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_1ce58c2e');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ></td></tr></table></div><div id="workpagesort_10" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer"><span style="font-size:9px;font-weight:normal;"><a value="all members" value="all members" class="func_lt2_display_ui lt2button btn ltbtn-button-float-right btn-tiny btn-default" type="button" role="button" href="/work/24948091/members/" ><span class="btntxt">all members</span></a></span></div><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'members', 'u_4760d57d', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Members</span><span class="sectionTitleST"></span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_4760d57d" style="display:block;"><table class="wstable" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td class="label memberlistLabel"><span style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:right;">Recently added by</span></td><td class="wide memberlistvalue" id="u_f907a155"><a href="/profile/c_h_i_e_f">c_h_i_e_f</a>, <a href="/profile/928blue11">928blue11</a>, <a href="/profile/Joyfulmomma26">Joyfulmomma26</a>, <a href="/profile/AAGP">AAGP</a>, <a href="/profile/Jodimiller37">Jodimiller37</a>, <a href="/profile/BryceV">BryceV</a>, <a href="/profile/librivendola">librivendola</a>, <a href="/profile/Morrso">Morrso</a>, <a href="/profile/GeoffSC">GeoffSC</a>, <a href="/profile/AngelikaD">AngelikaD</a></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="workpagesort_20" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer"><button id="u_f3cd3cff_snb" value="numbers" value="numbers" class="func_lt2_display_ui lt2button btn ltbtn-button-float-right btn-tiny btn-default" type="button" role="button" onclick="tagcloud_showTagNumbers('u_f3cd3cff'); 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The good and worst of both enterprise ie the need to expand and the run currency. <br>A good read, thought provoking but still fiction <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_273188290" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_273188290"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_273188290" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_273188290" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_273188290"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/BryceV" target="_top">BryceV</a> | Oct 10, 2024 | <a href="/review/273188290"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_258935827" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/24948091" data-workid="24948091" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1922330027.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1922330027.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1922330027.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>I love a book with short chapters. They propelled me through what feels like a short story, even though some of the chapter names were a bit perfunctory, almost tabloid in style. The very fine balance between Elizabeth's voice and the author, Kate Grenville's voice gradually tips into an almost farcical didacticism, The former becoming unbelievable as the latter dominates - a voice fresh from a workshop on the <em>correct</em> things to write about Indigenous colonial relations. <br><br>I wanted this curiously truncated book to succeed because I have several personal connections to the story: my mother was very involved in the restoration of Elizabeth Farm and, I was delighted and surprised to find a close relative, Nicholas Nepean (one of my middle names is Nepean) appear, even if it was not a particularly flattering portrayal.<br><br>What seems like the mundane discontent of a bad marriage turns almost heroic as Elizabeth gives birth to a sickly child. But there is something quite stultified about Elizabeth as a character (her children have no character). Perhaps it's because (like her marriage) Elizabeth can't escape her author's insistence that she have a 21st Century perspective. <br><br>Kate Grenville has missed a wonderful opportunity to examine how the various ways people thought about Aborigines influenced what they saw. This is something Keith Willey examines in his intriguing but little-known book [b:When the Sky Fell Down: The Destruction of the Tribes of the Sydney Region, 1788-1850's|975423|WHEN THE SKY FELL DOWN The Destruction of the Tribes of the Sydney Region 1788-1850s|Keith Willey|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1394329290l/975423._SY75_.jpg|960320]<br><br>Next, I'm thinking I'll read a history of the Aboriginal warrior [b:Pemulwuy, The Rainbow Warrior|6323289|Pemulwuy, The Rainbow Warrior|Eric Willmot|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1361081906l/6323289._SX50_.jpg|6508759] and from that perspective, I may be able to offer some more insightful comments about Kate Grenville's historical research. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_258935827" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_258935827"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_258935827" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_258935827" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_258935827"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/simonpockley" target="_top">simonpockley</a> | Feb 25, 2024 | <a href="/review/258935827"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_251607987" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/24948091" data-workid="24948091" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1922330027.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1922330027.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1922330027.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>I had hesitations about reading this thinking it would be too 'literary' for my tastes. I was wrong - this was a very enjoyable book telling the story of one woman's thwarted happiness and the confines of her life. It does not paint a pretty picture of John MacArthur or colonial life and made me seek out more information about his wife, Elizabeth. <br>I will definitely read more by Kate Grenville. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_251607987" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_251607987"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_251607987" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_251607987" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_251607987"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/secondhandrose" target="_top">secondhandrose</a> | Oct 31, 2023 | <a href="/review/251607987"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_249489138" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/24948091" data-workid="24948091" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1922330027.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1922330027.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1922330027.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Boring, stopped half way through. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss2.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_249489138" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_249489138"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_249489138" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_249489138" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_249489138"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/ramrak" target="_top">ramrak</a> | Sep 23, 2023 | <a href="/review/249489138"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_238301586" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/24948091" data-workid="24948091" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1922330027.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1922330027.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1922330027.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>This is a fictionalised account of the life of Elizabeth Macarthur, one of the pioneers in the English settlement of Sydney. Elizabeth's husband John is famed as the "father of the wool industry", but there is a strong case to be made that Elizabeth's contributions to this were equally important.<br><br>Grenville, however, gives short shrift to Elizabeth's contribution to history, and prefers to focus the story on her early life, her relationship with the impetuous John, her time in convict Sydney, and some invented salacious details about her love life. Once the Macarthurs move to Parramatta and the wool breeding business starts off, Grenville loses interest, however this is precisely the point where Elizabeth becomes a historically interesting figure, rather than a vehicle for invented melodrama.<br><br>Grenville introduces her story with an "Editor's Note" talking about some major document find at Elizabeth Farm that she then has to explain, in an Author's Note at the end, was something that she just made up. Why bother topping and tailing a novel with such a pointless and unnecessary device, which adds nothing to the story that she is telling? <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_238301586" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_238301586"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_238301586" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_238301586" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_238301586"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/gjky" target="_top">gjky</a> | Apr 9, 2023 | <a href="/review/238301586"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class='reviewnav'><div class="right"><strong><a href="#" 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Examples: Hermione Granger, Andrew Jackson, Oberon, St. Paul of Tarsus, or Zeus (Deity)' ><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_placesmentioned"></a>Important places</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_03fd3188' itemType='1' itemNum='24948091' fieldType='2' name='u_03fd3188' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'placesmentioned' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = '"Boston, Massachusetts, USA", "London, England", "The Plaza Hotel, New York, New York, USA", "Hogwarts", "Alpha Centauri", "Hell"' ><div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Sydney%2C+New+South+Wales%2C+Australia">Sydney, New South Wales, Australia</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/New+South+Wales%2C+Australia">New South Wales, Australia</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Parramatta%2C+New+South+Wales%2C+Australia">Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_events"></a>Important events</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_22d1f001' itemType='1' itemNum='24948091' fieldType='34' name='u_22d1f001' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'events' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Great Fire of London (1666), Battle of the Bulge (1944|1945), Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963-11-22), Battle of Hoth' ><div class='fwikiItem divevents'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_movies"></a>Related movies</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_2f7249ce' itemType='1' itemNum='24948091' fieldType='37' name='u_2f7249ce' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'movies' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Blade Runner (1982), The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Three Musketeers (1993)' ><div class='fwikiItem divmovies'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" editVal="" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr>     <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_epigraph"></a>Epigraph</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_81a2254e' itemType='1' itemNum='24948091' fieldType='28' name='u_81a2254e' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'epigraph' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The work's epigraph, "a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component." ' ><div class='fwikiItem divepigraph'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_dedication"></a>Dedication</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_932cfda4' itemType='1' itemNum='24948091' fieldType='30' name='u_932cfda4' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'dedication' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Author's dedication' ><div class='fwikiItem divdedication'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_firstwords"></a>First words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_5ebcdce3' itemType='1' itemNum='24948091' fieldType='25' name='u_5ebcdce3' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'firstwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The first sentence of the work.' ><div class='fwikiItem divfirstwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_quotations"></a>Quotations</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_68b12f2b' itemType='1' itemNum='24948091' fieldType='27' name='u_68b12f2b' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'quotations' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Well-known, relevant or interesting quotations from the work; Quotation marks are unnecessary.' ><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_lastwords"></a>Last words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_027fd697' itemType='1' itemNum='24948091' fieldType='26' name='u_027fd697' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'lastwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The last sentence of the work. 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