Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the WorldA groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English gentlewoman who would go on to become one of Australia's most significant, if little known, historical figures. In 1788, a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome, haughty, and penniless army officer. In any Austen novel, that would be the end of the story, but for the real life woman who became an Australian farming entrepreneur, it was just the beginning. John