Brown, Eliza (d. 1896)

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Brown, Eliza (d. 1896)

Australian letter writer. Born Eliza Bussey in Oxfordshire, England; died in Australia, 1896; dau. of William Bussey; educated at home; married Thomas Brown (land surveyor), Jan 1836 (died 1863); children: Kenneth, Aubrey, Maitland, Vernon, Matilda and Janet; grandmother of Edith Cowan, the 1st woman in Australian Parliament.

Arrived in Australia (1841); documented early Australian colonial life through letters home to her family in Oxfordshire, England; grandson Peter Cowan edited these letters, which were published as A Faithful Picture: The Letters of Eliza and Thomas Brown at York in the Swan River Colony 1841–1852 (1977).

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