Physical description
Soft cover book. The front cover illustration shows Margaret Dowd Pickett's grand-daughters picking mushrooms near Footscray. The back cover illustration shows the street names representing the women in the story - from Footscray, Sunshine and Keilor
Publication type
non-fiction
Inscriptions & markings
Pubs, Punts & Pastures: The Story of Pioneer Irish Women on the Salt Water River. Researched and written by Joan Carstairs & Maureen Lane
Summary
The book documents the lives of Irish immigrant women who lived, worked, and farmed along the Saltwater River (now Maribyrnong River) starting in the 1840's
