Parrot Pie for Breakfast: An Anthology of Women Pioneers

by Jane Robinson

There is nothing quite like parrot pie for breakfast. First one must catch one's parrot, of course, and build the hearth to bake it, but that is all in a day's work for the woman pioneer. This riveting anthology tells the story of over 100 such women spanning the age of Empire from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth. Almost half of them are settlers in North America and Canada, a quarter in Africa, many in Australasia and India,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192880209
• ISBN13: 9780192880208
• Release Date: August 1984
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Power behind the Pioneers

In Parrot Pie for Breakfast, Jane Robinson opens up the entire spectrum of the early pioneer days, not just North American, but globally. She reveals through diary and correspondence the strength and power of the women who stood behind and beside their men in the quest for a better life and freedom. The treasured snippets of their words bring history alive with a newer, brighter light that spotlights the mostly forgotten role of women in the harshest of times.