Your story on the heritage listing of Bouddi Farm (CCN 433) makes Lady Maisie Drysdale a victim of wifedom.
(Papers at) the National Library of Australia … document the life of Maisie Drysdale, which was intertwined with that of her first husband, Peter Purves Smith, and her second husband, Russell Drysdale.
The bulk of the papers relate to her life after her marriage to Drysdale in 1964.
There are diaries, correspondence, cuttings, papers about the establishment of Bouddi Farm and a large number of photographs which include early family portraits.
Lady Drysdale survived her husband by 20 years.
In their life together at Bouddi Farm, they were famous locally for their long lunches.
She was an equal owner of Bouddi Farm with her husband, and deserves to be credited as such – not ignored and therefore belittled.
Email, April 17
HF Monks, Pretty Beach