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Catherine Wells: An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman

Archive material. This page was published on sesasport.com before the current editorial desk took the domain on. We keep it online for readers and researchers; it is not the work of the present desk, and personal contact details of the original authors have been removed.

Catherine Wells, with the assistance of Roy and Frances Hay, Catherine Wells: An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman

The biography of Catherine Wells, born in 1914, who left school in Easter Ross at 14, worked in domestic service and brought up a family in wartime when her husband was badly wounded and who later published her collected poems and short stories at the age of 86.

Catherine Wells, with the assistance of Roy and Frances Hay, Catherine Wells: An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman, SESA, Teesdale, Victoria, 2004, ISBN 0-9751970-1-0, RRP $25.00 is available through Griffiths bookshop, Ryrie Street, Geelong, Melbourne Sports Books, Flinders Street, Melbourne or by post from SESA, 85 Fairway Crescent, Teesdale, Victoria, 3328 at RRP of $25.00, plus $5.00 post and packing. It is also available through Amazon UK at an RRP of £9.95.

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