From the Maitland Mercury report:
The lives of many strong women are recounted in Jean Archer’s Tocal book. There are the Aboriginal women, followed by the convicts and, more recently, the details of Myrtle and Marguerita Curtis who lived at the homestead until they died – three days apart – in 1985.
Titled The Women in the History of Tocal, the book is also a first for the region and includes a historical section and an imaginative re-creation of events. “I’ve written stories that could have taken place featuring women’s perspectives,” Mrs Archer said.
Full article by Emma Swain available at Maitland Mercury, 03 Nov, 2011.
