Download or read book Meet Nellie Melba written by Janeen Brian and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including opera star Dame Nellie Melba. Dame Nellie Melba was a soprano singer. She was the first classical musician from Australia to gain international acclaim, helping to raise Australia's cultural prestige in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was appointed Dame Commander, OBE for her enormous fundraising efforts during World War One. Dame Nellie is remembered for bringing opera and opera training to audiences across Australia and commemorated on the Australian hundred-dollar note. From Ned Kelly to Banjo Paterson; Captain Cook to Sidney Nolan, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.
Download or read book Nellie Melba written by Dame Nellie Melba and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nellie written by Robert Wainwright and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In this highly readable biography of Nellie Melba...Robert Wainwright tells the story of the girl with the incredible voice who, by sheer force of her personality and power of her decibels, took the operatic world by storm and managed to escape from her violent husband' Ysenda Maxtone Graham, DAILY MAIL Nellie Melba is remembered as a squarish, late middle-aged woman dressed in furs and large hats, an imperious Dame whose voice ruled the world for three decades and inspired a peach and raspberry dessert. But to succeed, she had to battle social expectations and misogyny that would have preferred she stay a housewife in outback Queensland rather than parade herself on stage. She endured the violence of a bad marriage, was denied by scandal a true love with the would-be King of France, and suffered for more than a decade the loss of her only son - stolen by his angry, vengeful father. Despite these obstacles, she built and maintained a career as an opera singer and businesswoman on three continents which made her one of the first international superstars. Award-winning biographer Robert Wainwright presents a very different portrait of this great diva, one that celebrates both her musical contributions and her rich and colourful personal life.
Download or read book Nellie Melba written by Richard Davis and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meet Sidney Nolan written by Yvonne Mes and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sidney Nolan was one of Australia's most renowned artists. This is the story of how Sidney came to create his iconic Ned Kelly paintings.
Download or read book Biographical File of Information on Dame Nellie Melba written by Dame Nellie Melba and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical file of information on Dame Nellie Melba comprising: "Dame Nellie Melba. A centennial review" by Warren Perry (published in Victorian Historical Maazine, vol. 31, no. 4, May 1961); "A Dame Nellie Melba centenary oration" by Dr. Colin Macdonald (published in Victorian Historical Magazine, vol. 31, no. 3, February 1961); "Portrait of a Prima Donna", radio broadcast for the centenary of Melba's birth on 19 May 1961 by John Thompson; press cuttings; one photograph; and references to other newspaper articles on Melba.
Download or read book Meet Don Bradman written by Coral Vass and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia’s history, including cricket’s greatest ever batsman, Sir Donald Bradman. Don Bradman was Australia’s greatest cricketer. This is the story of how he first came to play for Australia, and how his record-breaking feats in the Ashes series became a source of pride and hope during the hard years of the Great Depression. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to Banjo Paterson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.
Download or read book Nellie Melba written by Nance Irvine and published by Hachette Children's Books Australia. This book was released on 1986 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meet Weary Dunlop written by Claire Saxby and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including World War II hero Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop. Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop was an Australian Army surgeon during World War II. This is the story of how Weary’s bravery and compassion helped to save the lives and bolster the spirits of fellow prisoners of war on the Thai–Burma Railway. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop, Captain Cook to Banjo Paterson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia’s history.
Download or read book Meet Douglas Mawson written by Mike Dumbleton and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including the great Antarctic explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson. Douglas Mawson led the first Australian expedition to the Antarctic. Meet Douglas Mawson tells the story of how Mawson survived the dangers and challenges of the frozen continent. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to the ANZACS and Douglas Mawson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.
Download or read book Correspondence with Nellie Melba written by Beryl Fanning and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence between Fanning and Nellie Melba.
Download or read book Nellie Melba written by Marian Vickery and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meet Nancy Bird Walton written by Grace Atwood and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including Australia's first female commercial pilot, Nancy Bird Walton. Nancy Bird Walton grew up during the golden age of aviation. By the time she was 13, Nancy knew she wanted to fly. This is the story of how Nancy began her career as Australia’s first female commercial pilot.
Download or read book Letters of Nellie Melba written by Dame Nellie Melba and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four autograph letters from Nellie Melba, approximately 1930-1931, all addressed to "My dear". Sixteen pages, nine of them written on. Includes two from the Hotel Ritz in Paris, in ink and pencil; one in ink from Highcliff Castle in Dorset, England; and a letter in pencil from RMS Orova. Melba writes about feeling dreadfully ill, asking for maids and nurses to be arranged, and requesting to be transferred straight to a hospital on her return to Australia. Melba died in St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney on 23 February 1931, aged 69, of septicaemia which had developed after undergoing facial surgery in Europe.
Download or read book Dame Nellie Melba written by Gail Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meet the ANZACs written by Claire Saxby and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including our brave Anzac soldiers. Anzac stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. It is the name given to the Australian and New Zealand troops who landed at Gallipoli in World War I. The name is now a symbol of bravery and mateship. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to Douglas Mawson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.
