Books by Susanna De Vries

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ROYAL MISTRESSES OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER-WINDSOR
The genuine love match between Prince William and Kate Middleton has rekindled enthusiasm for the monarchy. All these arranged loveless marriages between Princes of the House of Hanover-Windsor and German princesses or aristocrats ensured vacancies for royal mistresses.

In the past princes were made to marry for dynastic reasons or for money. Loveless royal marriages ensured princes and kings took mistresses.

Trailblazers-Susanna deVries

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TRAILBLAZERS
Caroline Chisholm to Quentin Bryce

The lives of extraordinary Australian women, who have been pioneers and inspiring role models of their time..

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FEMALES ON THE FATAL SHORE
Fettered and Free

This is the story of the lives of 14 significant women who sailed to the Australian colonies in its founding years.

The first to arrive was Esther Abrahams, a 16-year-old Jewish girl transported for shoplifting two cards of lace. Esther and other female convicts landed on ‘the fatal shore’ in a storm and she and many other female convicts were set upon by sex-starved men who had been awaiting their arrival for two weeks.

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with two extra plates.

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ETHEL CARRICK FOX
Travels and Triumphs of a Post-Impressionist

In 1996 Ethel Carrick Fox became Australia's highest-priced woman artist when her painting of a French flower market sold at auction for $105,500. She had been ignored for decades - some of her unsigned works had been attributed to her more famous husband, Emanuel Phillips Fox, by unscrupulous art dealers who also accused her of forging her husband's name on her works in order to sell them at a higher price.
 

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HEROIC AUSTRALIAN WOMEN IN WAR
Astonishing tales of bravery from Gallipoli to Kokoda

Nancy Wake remarked: 'The exploits of Australia's women at war have been sadly neglected for years.’ Yet women have suffered, strengthened and defied fear in extraordinary acts of bravery.
 

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BLUE RIBBONS, BITTER BREAD
The life of Joice NanKivell Loch - Australia’s most heroic woman

JOICE LOCH was an extraordinary Australian. She had the inspired courage that saved many hundreds of Jews and Poles in World War II, the compassion that made her a self-trained doctor to tens of thousands of refugees, the incredible grit that took her close to death in several theatres of war, and the dedication to truth and justice that shone forth in her own books and a lifetime of astonishing heroism.

*Apply to Dennis Jones Associates of Melbourne for Print on Demand copies at the same price, $35.00.


 

 

Susanna de Vries is an international author and former lecturer at the Queensland University. She writes full time and lectures in public libraries and to branches of ADFAS, the Australian Fine and Decorative Art Society.

Many of Susanna's books are available as e-books, audio books and Blue Ribbons is a print on demand book from Dennis Jones Associates, Melbourne.

SUSANNA IS VISITNG SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE IN JUNE.
See details on events at Lindfield, Gordon and Mitchell Libraries and Brighton Historical Society and Hill of Content Bookshop, Bourke Street, Melbourne.