Jeannie Gunn





Jeannie Gunn

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We of the Never Never is an autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn. Although published as a novel, it is an account of the author's experiences in 1902 at Elsey Station near Mataranka, Northern Territory in which she changed the names of people to obscure their identities. She published this book under the pen name Mrs Aeneas Gunn.

Mrs Gunn was the first white woman to settle in the area. Her husband was a partner in Elsey cattle station on the Roper River, some 300 miles (483 km) south of Darwin. On 2 January 1902 the couple sailed for Port Darwin so that he could take up his role as the station's new manager. In Palmerston (Darwin), Mrs Gunn was discouraged from accompanying her husband to the station on the basis that as a woman she would...more


Average rating: 3.51 · 242 ratings · 22 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
We of the Never Never
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 1908 — 25 editions
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings4 editions
The Little Black Princess
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009

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“When the heart is happy it forgets to grow old.”
Jeannie Gunn, We of the Never Never



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