The memoirs of a young governess and budding photographer who lives for a year in Darwin - in 1913 - travelling the surrounds to Pine Creek till early 1914. A remarkable evocation of daily life in the Territory when few white women were living there, with excellent reports on the Chinese and Aboriginals she encountered there.
Elsie Masson was born in 1891 in Melbourne. She is best known as the wife of Polish-British anthropologist Bernard Malinowski. She published An Untamed Territory: The Northern Territory of Australia in 1915, and died in 1935.