Hard Women Book Launch

Three generations of the Hard family have lived in Denmark for almost a century. Now Ruth Pollock, nee Hard, returns to launch her fourth book, “Hard Women”, at the Denmark Museum on Saturday 2nd December, 2pm. All welcome.

The book starts in Sweden, about 1880. Ruth’s paternal grandmother had just lost her beloved Frederik, three weeks before their marriage. From sadness, this gutsy woman started an adventurous life including cooking for the King of Sweden, migrating to America and marrying a Swedish gold prospector, and migrating to Australia where she had her first child at 38 at Coolgardie on 11 November 1900. She had many more adventures before her death in Perth in 1944.

Ruth’s mother, Dorothy Moyle, married Alida’s eldest son, Gus Hard, and was another tough lady who spent 22 years in Denmark during the Depression and World War 2. Following a difficult pregnancy, Ruth was born at Denmark, her life no less adventurous than that of her ancestors.

Against a backdrop of world events and male discrimination (past and present) Ruth presents a study of her grandmother, her mother and herself.

Don Pollock

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