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Mrs. "Rolf Boldrewood's" The Flower Garden in Australia. single work biography

Author:agent Dirk H.R. Spennemann

Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Mrs. "Rolf Boldrewood's" The Flower Garden in Australia.

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The paper summarises the Albury period of Margaret Browne, wife of the police magistrate and novelist Thomas A Browne (aka Rolf Boldrewood), detailing her gardens and exhibitions of flowers at the annual Albury Shows. Towards the end of her 10-year stay in Albury, she published The Flower Garden in Australia, the first Australian gardening book ever written by a woman.