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| ====== Character, Possessions ====== | ====== Character, Possessions, Photos====== |
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| TLM-P's actions and possessions as well as his writings reveal much about his character, and this section gives additional hints about what he was like. | TLM-P's actions and possessions as well as his writings reveal much about his character, and this section gives additional hints about what he was like. |
| TLM-P's conflict with Elise Barney of the Brisbane Post office has made him somewhat of a feminist anti-hero, but neither his two choices of wife, his support for his daughter Rosa's career, nor his will, supports the view of him as a general oppressor of women. In his will, he made it clear that his bequests to his wife and daughters were all 'for her separate and inalienable use ... free from marital control or engagements'. While trustees still controlled his second wife's money, he did appoint her relatives to act in her interest and furthermore gave her the right of choice between continuing with her marriage settlement, or accepting £10,000 (roughly equivalent to $1,427,346 in 2017 values) instead.((TLM-P, Last will and testament; Thom Blake, how much is it worth? http://www.thomblake.com.au/secondary/hisdata/calculate.php)) \\ | TLM-P's conflict with Elise Barney of the Brisbane Post office has made him somewhat of a feminist anti-hero, but neither his two choices of wife, his support for his daughter Rosa's career, nor his will, supports the view of him as a general oppressor of women. In his will, he made it clear that his bequests to his wife and daughters were all 'for her separate and inalienable use ... free from marital control or engagements'. While trustees still controlled his second wife's money, he did appoint her relatives to act in her interest and furthermore gave her the right of choice between continuing with her marriage settlement, or accepting £10,000 (roughly equivalent to $1,427,346 in 2017 values) instead.((TLM-P, Last will and testament; Thom Blake, how much is it worth? http://www.thomblake.com.au/secondary/hisdata/calculate.php)) \\ |
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| {{:tlm-p_melbourne.jpg?300|}} {{:tlm-p_head.jpg?300|}} These photos from TLM-P's album((Provenance: From TLM-P to his wife Nora, to her daughters Dorothy & Ruth M-P/Robert M-P, to Robert's son E.S.M-P, to his daughter J. Godden)) were, respectively, taken in Melbourne and Sydney. The images are designed to reveal a prosperous man who has succeeded in his adopted land. For more photos of him, click on [[TLM-P photographs]]. | {{:tlm-p_melbourne.jpg?300|}} {{:tlmp_in_melbourne.jpg?300|}} {{:tlm-p_head.jpg?300|}} The first two photos from TLM-P's album((Provenance: From TLM-P to his wife Nora, to her daughters Dorothy & Ruth M-P/Robert M-P, to Robert's son E.S.M-P, to his daughter J. Godden)) were taken in Melbourne; the last in Sydney. The images are designed to reveal a prosperous man who has succeeded in his adopted land. For more photos of him, click on [[TLM-P photographs]]. |
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| ==== Furniture and other possessions==== | ==== Furniture and other possessions==== |