Florence Broadhurst Her Secret & Extraordinary Lives

Author: Helen O'Neill

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General Fields

  • : $59.95 AUD
  • : 9781740662949
  • : Hardie Grant Books
  • : Hardie Grant Books
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  • : 0.936
  • : March 2006
  • : 260mm X 187mm X 23mm
  • : Australia
  • : 59.95
  • : April 2006
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  • : books

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  • : Helen O'Neill
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  • : Hardback
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  • : English
  • : 700.92
  • : very good
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  • : 230
  • : Biography & autobiography; Individual artists; Interior design
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Barcode 9781740662949
9781740662949

Description

Broadhurst was born in 1899 in Quensland. At 15, she wrote an article for her small country school that reads like a mission statement: I am resolved to do great things. By 19 she was singing her way around Australiam her remarkable contralto voice having apparently won her th chance to peform with Melba and Helpmann.

Awards

Shortlisted for Age Book of the Year: Non-fiction 2006.

Author description

Helen O'Neill is an investigative writer and biographer.