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Parrot Pie for Breakfast: An Anthology of Women Pioneers
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Parrot Pie for Breakfast: An Anthology of Women Pioneers Paperback - 2000

by Jane Robinson

Catching a parrot and building the hearth to bake it was all in a day's work for the woman pioneer. This riveting anthology tells the story of over 100 such women who settled everywhere from Africa and India to North America and Canada in the age of Empire, from the early 17th to the early 20th centuries.


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There is nothing quite like parrot pie for breakfast. First one must catch one's parrot, of course, and build the hearth to bake it, but that is all in a day's work for the woman pioneer. This riveting anthology tells the story of over 100 such women spanning the age of Empire from the early
seventeenth century to the early twentieth. Almost half of them are settlers in North America and Canada, a quarter in Africa, many in Australasia and India, and the rest scattered around the globe from Egypt to Jamaica, Sarawak to Samoa, and many points inbetween. From the lowliest kitchen skivvy
to ambassadors' wives, this book celebrates the emigrants who settled the wildernesses of the world in search of new and better lives. Many were lured abroad by the promise of work or fortune; some went because imperial duty called, while for others it was a most unfeminine lust for adventure that
drew them away. But all faced challenges in their homes from home that were to test to the limit their spirits, their resourcefulness, even their survival.

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  • Title Parrot Pie for Breakfast: An Anthology of Women Pioneers
  • Author Jane Robinson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP Oxford, Oxford
  • Date May 18, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780192880208 / 0192880209
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.51 x 5.56 x 0.67 in (21.62 x 14.12 x 1.70 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Colonies - Social life and, Great Britain - Colonies - Social conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99025636
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.409

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 04/01/2000, Page 116
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/24/2000, Page 80
  • School Library Journal, 11/01/2000, Page 185

About the author

Jane Robinson was born in Edinburgh and brought up in North Yorkshire. After graduating from Somerville College, Oxford, he joined a firm of antiquarian book dealers specializing in travel, later leaving to pursue a writing career. She lives near Oxford with her husband and two sons. This is her fourth book.
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