Land of Apples Nonsense from Tried, Tested and True: Stories and Recipes Celebrating the Traditions of Australian Community Cookbooks by Liz Harfull

*Cookery Calendar from Apple Land*, 1933 (State Library of NSW).

Saying grace before eating at the Hobart Free Kindergarten, Watchorn Street (Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, AOT PH30/1/1136E).

Emily Dobson was a formidable woman who liked to speak her mind. Even the last German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, did not escape rebuke when she met him at a glittering social occasion in Europe. ‘No woman had ever dared to object to anything he said until Granny,’ recalled her granddaughter, Gladys. ‘I do not know what subject he raised, but his opinion did not agree with Granny’s ideas, and she had no hesitation in telling him so!’