Publisher's Synopsis
Elizabeth MacArthur, with her husband John and their infant son, left England in the notorious Second Fleet and arrived in Sydney in 1790. When she first arrived, conditions were primitive, the food supply uncertain, and little was known of the country beyond the tiny settlement. By 1850 when she died, the settlement had spread over much of the colony of New South Wales and the staple export, wool, was well established. She, her husband and sons made a significant contribution to the latter development.
