Australia through women's eyes / Ann Standish.
Copyright date: ©2008Description: viii, 336 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781921509070
- Meredith, Louisa, 1812-1895
- Meredith, Charles, Mrs., 1812-1895
- Meredith, Louisa Anne, 1812-1895
- Meredith, Louisa, 1812-1895
- Meredith, Charles, Mrs., 1812-1895
- Meredith, Louisa Anne, 1812-1895
- Meredith, Louisa
- Women authors, Australian -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Women and literature
- Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Women pioneers -- Australia
- Australian literature -- Women authors
- Women
- Race relations - Racism
- Environment - Biodiversity - Plants
- Settlement and contacts - English
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation
- Politics and Government - Political action - Women
- History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous
- Literature and stories - Non indigenous
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - 1901-
- Race relations -- Violent -- Massacres, murders, poisonings, etc -- 1901-
- Race relations -- Racism
- Literature and stories -- Non indigenous
- History -- Biographies -- Non-Indigenous
- Environment -- Biodiversity -- Plants
- Settlement and contacts -- English
- Settlement and contacts -- Colonisation
- Politics and Government -- Political action -- Women
- Australian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Women and literature -- Australia
- Women -- Australia
- Australia
- Australia -- History
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Jessie Street National Women's Library Processing Centre | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 90799 |
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 274-292.
Travelling and settling: women in the Australian Bush 1829-1849 -- 'Completely strange and un-english: depicting Australian nature -- Ladies visit the gold diggings of Australia -- Doing the lions: British women in Australian cities 1860-1890 -- Travelling with intent: social investigations visit the colonies -- Colonial myths and legends: Katie Langloh Parker and Daisy Bates.
When Louisa Meredith arrived in Van Diemen's land in 1841 after living in NSW, she was struck by how much the colony resembled her homeland. Finding signs of home in both the landscape and social life of the colonies is a theme that recurs in writings of female colonists But in these writings it becomes evident that they must be "white"..
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