Glenda Smith

I see where "Trail to Treagolden" by Ida McLeod (Siddens) is classified as fiction. I think there is a very fine line between fiction & non-fiction. It is more or less stated part of the work is history, but the journey from the Patterson to the Manning is based on the authors own impressions. Is that the only part of the book you classify as "fiction", that being a fairly small part of the whole book. If that is why you classify as fiction, I think almost every piece of written history should be classified as fiction because much of it would have been written from the authors own perspective. I have a lot of Australian History books in my library, most I am sure classified as History. But written by different authors, I am sure if I compared writer to writer, I am sure there would be differences in the "history". In writing of my mother's grandmother, I have a lot of information, but also have to use the times in order to understand more of her life & business. She didn't leave notes about every dress she made. I write that she didn't go down to Spotlight to buy a pattern & material then come home, cut it out & sew it. She did the design, made up the pattern & sewed the garment & in the late 1800's they were not simple designs as we have mostly now. Isabella Mary Kelly is a pioneer woman about whom much has been written & I expect most should be classified as "fiction" but I wonder.