Matilda Wallace
Australian pioneer and biographer (born 1838)
Summary
Matilda Wallace was a 19th century pioneer Australian pastoralist. Born in High Ham, Somerset, England to Sarah and George Hill. She emigrated to Australia departing Liverpool on 31 October 1858, joining members of her family in Coromandel Valley, in the Colony of South Australia. She was a twenty-year old sponsored by brother, Robert Hill. Wallace and her husband Abraham were for many years frontier sheep and cattle farmers, which she documented in a memoir. Her account provides a view into the place of women in society at the time, the hardships of frontier settlers and their interactions with Indigenous people.
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