I was born in Ceduna in 1940 and raised on a farm on the edge of Nullabor Plains in remote South Australia. My paternal and maternal grandparents pioneered much of the lands around us which is still owned by our families.
I was a shy well behaved girl as all children were expected to be in those days...seen but not heard...until I went to boarding school and saw there was a different way of life; a life I longed for; a life full of fun and laughter.
Slowly as I made my way in life through many trials and tribulations I unwittingly transformed into a competent, capable, outspoken successful business woman in the days when the general belief was women were put on this earth to support and pamper men.
I had been groomed to marry a farmer.....a neighboring farmer to conveniently merge farmland properties.
Fortunately, as innocent as I was, I had other ideas....and escaped to an unknown world.
Follow this world in my three part autobiography soon available from Smashwords.
Book 1. EUNICE. 1940 to 1960. My first twenty years. Isolated, protected, suppressed.
Book 2. EMERGENCE OF EUNICE. 1960 to 1990. Title says it all....through the era's of . woman's liberation, equality of the sexes and swinging sixties.
Book 3. EUNICE EMERGED. 1990 to 2020. My second life in a whole new world of technology.
I am still alive, fit and healthy and continue to enjoy my hobbies:-
Sewing - I never buy clothes, I can have what I want... I make them... so why not?
Squash- I still play competitively... it keeps my body and mind active and alert.
Socialising with Red Hat groups... woman over 50 who don't want the world to pass them by, we wear red hats and purple frocks in social groups, we don't go un-noticed.
…...and my new hobby... writing.
I figure as I am an Octogenarian I have the liberty to truthfully document my years on this earth... years that were so different from today.
I particularly wanted to document the way of life lived in the mid 20th century to answer many questions from my grandchildren for their descendants.
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My autobiography 'Emergence of Eunice' continues directly on from 'Eunice'.
It is 1960, having moved alone to the city to escape the regimented farm life and strict upbringing, I am unwittingly discovering a whole different world.
I am twenty years old, marriageable age, but who would want to marry plain ugly me?
Girls didn't want to be "left on the shelf", they didn't want to become an 'old maid'.
Girls married for security, guys married for sex.
Men expected to marry a virgin.
Marriage vows were standard, women promised to "love and obey till death do us part". These vows were lawful.
Marriage was a lottery, if you lose you bear the consequences, obey and make the most of it or suffer a life of misery.
Many changes took place during the 30 years of this book. Equality of sexes and equal rights, woman's liberation, homosexuality legalized, capital punishment abolished, and the biggest liberator for women - introduction of the pill.
I trust you will enjoy this journey with me as I unwittingly and innocently, with no professional help available, emerge though these years being guided by my conscience, my capabilities, my desires, my determination, my commonsense and my survival instincts.
I spilled my gutz without retribution in this book and was hesitant to publish while still alive, but figure now as an Octogenarian I should document life as it was during this era and be afforded a little liberty to truthfully document my personal years on this earth by revealing my unethical survival tactics.
These years that changed the world certainly changed me, be it for the good or the bad: you be the judge.
My Autobiography Set of Books
Book 1. 'Eunice' 1940 to 1960. My first twenty years. Isolated, protected, suppressed.
Book 2. 'Emergence of Eunice' 1960 to 1990. Title says it all...through the era of woman's liberation, equality of the sexes, the introduction of the pill and swinging sixties.
Book 3. 'Eunice Emerged' 1990 to 2020. My second life in a whole new world of technology.
Título : Emergence of Eunice
EAN : 9781005085063
Editorial : Eunice Neale
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