Status Updates From Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life...

Those extra workers Elizabeth had needed so badly were signed over to her husband as easy as kiss my hand. Though happy to receive them, it would only be human for Elizabeth to have felt a little sour about it all.

DAMN STRAIGHT & AMEN, SISTER.

“Although it was easier for Elizabeth to socialise with her women friends now that John was away and not arguing with their husbands…”

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Classic.

Almost a decade later King would write that there was no society where the clashing of duty and interest between the governor and the governed was more violent than in New South Wales, and more particularly so if the governor did his duty.

lol so not much has changed then 2.5 centuries later!

I'm up to the beginning of chapter 4 - From the Neptune to the Scarborough.