Physical description

Hard cover book. Sally in Rhodesia
Author: Sheila MacDonald
Publisher: Cornstalk Publishing Co
Date: 1926
Further Information: Brown Cloth hardcover with lettering and patterning to spine in white hand written text. The spine has been repaired with blue cloth tape and has a Library label with an inscription.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Label on spine with typed text PAT FIC MACD
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Flyleaf has a stamp from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute

Summary

The book is a semi-autobiographical work written as a series of letters from a young European woman in Africa to her mother in Britain. The letters date from 1907 to 1912. They describe, in a chatty style, the rigours of domestic life in Salisbury and the raising of a family. Sally Mackenzie arrives in Rhodesia in August 1907 to marry Toby Macdonald, when the colony was still very young. The tone is cheerful and humorous, and the book is about household and settler life rather than politics. It is a white settler’s account and reflects the colonial attitudes of its day.