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The Australians #2.2
Kolonisterne (Australierne Book 4)
Fjerde bog i den spændende og dramatiske beretning om Australiens kolonisering – et land skabt af blod, passion og drømme.
Kampen fortsætter i den nye britiske koloni, kampen om magt såvel som overlevelse. De korrupte militærofficerer gør alt, hvad de kan for at få juridisk og politisk magt, mens guvernøren har svært ved at udføre sine pligter.
Og Jenny Taggart, der nu er befriet fra sin status som straffefange, kæmper hårdt for sin familie, sin forløsning og sit nye land.
Kampen fortsætter i den nye britiske koloni, kampen om magt såvel som overlevelse. De korrupte militærofficerer gør alt, hvad de kan for at få juridisk og politisk magt, mens guvernøren har svært ved at udføre sine pligter.
Og Jenny Taggart, der nu er befriet fra sin status som straffefange, kæmper hårdt for sin familie, sin forløsning og sit nye land.
313 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 28, 2022
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Vivian Stuart
131 books12 followersSee also V.A. Stuart.
Violet Vivian Finlay was born on 2 January 1914 in Berkshire, England, UK, the daughter of Alice Kathleen (née Norton) and Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay. Her father was the owner and director of Burmah Oil Company Ltd., whose Scottish family also owned James Finlay and Company Ltd. The majority of her childhood and youth was spent in Rangoon, Burma (now also known as Myanmar), where her father worked. During her life, she frequently journeyed between India, Singapore, Java and Sumatra.
Although Vivian is well-known by the surname of Stuart, she married four times during her lifetime, and had five children: Gillian Rushton (née Porch), Kim Santow, Jennifer Gooch (née Stuart), and twins Vary and Valerie Stuart.
Following the dissolution of her first marriage, she studied for a time Law in London in the mid 1930s, before decided studied Medicine at the University of London. Later she spent time in Hungary in the capacity of private tutor in English, while she obtained a pathologist qualification at the University of Budapest in 1938. In 1939, she emigrated to Australia with her second husband, a Hungarian Doctor Geza Santow with whom she worked. In 1942, she obtained a diploma in industrial chemistry and laboratory technique at Technical Institute of Newcastle. Having earned an ambulance driver's certificate, she joined the Australian Forces at the Women's Auxiliary Service during World War II. She was attached to the IVth Army, and raised to the rank of sergeant, she was posted to British XIV Army in Rangoon, Burma in October 1945, and was then transferred to Sumatra in December. After the WWII, she returned to England. On 24 October 1958, she married her fourth and last husband, Cyril William Mann, a bank manager.
She was a prolific writer from 1953 to 1986 under diferent pseudonyms: Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V. A. Stuart, William Stuart Long and Robyn Stuart. Many of her novels were protagonized by doctors or nurses, and set in Asia, Australia or other places she had visited. Her romance novel, Gay Cavalier published in 1955 as Alex Stuart got her into trouble with her Mills & Boon editors when she featured a secondary story line featuring a Catholic male and Protestant female who chose to marry. This so-called "mixed marriage" touched nerves in the United Kingdom.
In 1960, she was a founder of the Romantic Novelists' Association, along with Denise Robins, Barbara Cartland, and others; she was elected the first Chairman (1961-1963). In 1970, she became the first woman to chair Swanwick Writers' Summer School.
Violet Vivian Finlay Porch Santow Stuart Mann passed away on August 1986 in Yorkshire, at age 72. She continued writing until her death.
Violet Vivian Finlay was born on 2 January 1914 in Berkshire, England, UK, the daughter of Alice Kathleen (née Norton) and Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay. Her father was the owner and director of Burmah Oil Company Ltd., whose Scottish family also owned James Finlay and Company Ltd. The majority of her childhood and youth was spent in Rangoon, Burma (now also known as Myanmar), where her father worked. During her life, she frequently journeyed between India, Singapore, Java and Sumatra.
Although Vivian is well-known by the surname of Stuart, she married four times during her lifetime, and had five children: Gillian Rushton (née Porch), Kim Santow, Jennifer Gooch (née Stuart), and twins Vary and Valerie Stuart.
Following the dissolution of her first marriage, she studied for a time Law in London in the mid 1930s, before decided studied Medicine at the University of London. Later she spent time in Hungary in the capacity of private tutor in English, while she obtained a pathologist qualification at the University of Budapest in 1938. In 1939, she emigrated to Australia with her second husband, a Hungarian Doctor Geza Santow with whom she worked. In 1942, she obtained a diploma in industrial chemistry and laboratory technique at Technical Institute of Newcastle. Having earned an ambulance driver's certificate, she joined the Australian Forces at the Women's Auxiliary Service during World War II. She was attached to the IVth Army, and raised to the rank of sergeant, she was posted to British XIV Army in Rangoon, Burma in October 1945, and was then transferred to Sumatra in December. After the WWII, she returned to England. On 24 October 1958, she married her fourth and last husband, Cyril William Mann, a bank manager.
She was a prolific writer from 1953 to 1986 under diferent pseudonyms: Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V. A. Stuart, William Stuart Long and Robyn Stuart. Many of her novels were protagonized by doctors or nurses, and set in Asia, Australia or other places she had visited. Her romance novel, Gay Cavalier published in 1955 as Alex Stuart got her into trouble with her Mills & Boon editors when she featured a secondary story line featuring a Catholic male and Protestant female who chose to marry. This so-called "mixed marriage" touched nerves in the United Kingdom.
In 1960, she was a founder of the Romantic Novelists' Association, along with Denise Robins, Barbara Cartland, and others; she was elected the first Chairman (1961-1963). In 1970, she became the first woman to chair Swanwick Writers' Summer School.
Violet Vivian Finlay Porch Santow Stuart Mann passed away on August 1986 in Yorkshire, at age 72. She continued writing until her death.
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July 10, 2024
Rereading it
I read this series previously when it was only available in paperbacks that had to be purchased through used book sellers. I really enjoyed the series then and I'm loving it again on reread. I am especially happy to see the authors real name is being used instead of her male pen name. Check out this series.
I read this series previously when it was only available in paperbacks that had to be purchased through used book sellers. I really enjoyed the series then and I'm loving it again on reread. I am especially happy to see the authors real name is being used instead of her male pen name. Check out this series.
July 20, 2023
Oplæser: Jesper Bøllehuus. Jeg er ret glad for Bøllehuus - en god oplæser.
Denne serie om Australien er rigtig spændende. Den handler både om de stakkels fanger der blev sendt til Australien, om militærets generelle opførsel i de første år af landets begyndelse og om vanskelighederne med at oprette en koloni, så langt fra England.
Politik, pengegriskhed, opdagelsesrejser og eventyr, drømme om en ny fremtid. Bogen indeholder det hele - og lidt til.
Glæder mig til næste bog i serien.
Denne serie om Australien er rigtig spændende. Den handler både om de stakkels fanger der blev sendt til Australien, om militærets generelle opførsel i de første år af landets begyndelse og om vanskelighederne med at oprette en koloni, så langt fra England.
Politik, pengegriskhed, opdagelsesrejser og eventyr, drømme om en ny fremtid. Bogen indeholder det hele - og lidt til.
Glæder mig til næste bog i serien.
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