Elizabeth & Elizabeth, Sue Williams ; read by Eveline Benedict
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Elizabeth & Elizabeth, Sue Williams ; read by Eveline Benedict
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Elizabeth & Elizabeth
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Sue Williams ; read by Eveline Benedict
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'I've waited for this moment so long, dreamed of it, prepared for it, I can barely believe it's finally here. But it is. And it is nothing like I expected.' There was a short time in Australia's European history when two women wielded extraordinary power and influence behind the scenes of the fledgling colony. One was Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of the new governor Lachlan Macquarie, nudging him towards social reform and magnificent buildings and town planning. The other was Elizabeth Macarthur, credited with creating Australia's wool industry and married to John Macarthur, a dangerous enemy of the establishment. These women came from strikingly different backgrounds with husbands who held sharply conflicting views. They should have been bitter foes
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