The author of the Petticoat Pioneer series of books here illustrates the toil of the everyday lives of New Zealand's pioneer women, told in detail from the overall view of the average Victorian housewife. This includes both the fortunate ladies whose finances enabled them to sit back and await callers while their maids and cooks did the work, and the maids and cooks themselves. The book delves into their lives from the laundry, scullery and nursery, to their work behind the plough, in the vegetable garden or in the milking shed...