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for around a year, and where she bore a son. Towards the end of 1840 they relocated to
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Many of her books were illustrated by herself. Her volumes on New South Wales, Tasmania, and
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police magistrate in 1844 by
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told her that he had read and appreciated her articles when a youth. After her husband's death she was granted a pension of £100 a year by the
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process. The illustrations were drawn by herself, and simple descriptions of characteristic native flowers were given. In 1861 an account of a visit to
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in the 1880s and he records her giving him assistance as a photographer, and of her showing him the "many specimens of both her own and the Bishop
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