Into the loneliness : the unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates / Eleanor Hogan.
Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xviii, 426 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:- cartographic image
- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781742236599
- Hill, Ernestine, 1899-1972
- Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951
- Lock, Annie, 1876-1943
- Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951. Passing of the Aborigines
- Bates, Daisy, 1859-1951
- Bates, Daisy, 1861-1951
- Hill, Ernestine, 1899-1972
- Hill, Ernestine, 1899-1972
- Race relations - Representation - Literature
- Race relations - Representation - History
- Religions - Christianity - Missions - United Aborigines Mission
- Socioeconomic conditions - Living conditions
- Pitjantjatjara people C6
- Media - Print media
- Race relations - Attitudes
- Travelers' writings, Australian -- History and criticism
- Nuclear weapons -- South Australia -- Testing
- Women travelers -- Australia -- 20th century -- Biography
- Biographies
- Journalists -- Australia -- Biography
- Ethnologists -- Australia -- Biography
- Women ethnologists -- Australia -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Authors, Australian
- Journalists
- Travel writers
- Travel writers -- Australia -- 20th century -- Biography
- Journalists -- Australia -- 20th century -- Biography
- Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography
- Eucla (SE WA Nullarbor SH52-14)
- Ooldea (Far West SA SH52-12)
- Maralinga (Far West SA SH52-12)
- Wynbring (West SA SH53-10)
- Yalata (Far West SA Nullarbor SH52-16, Nullarbor SH53-13)
- The Nullabor (Far West SA SH52-16)
- Adelaide (SE SA SI54-09)
- Australia
- Australian
- 070.92 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 070.92 HOG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 90239 |
Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-411) and index.
An original and riveting biography of two of the most singular women Australia has ever seen. Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Daisy Bates, dressed in Victorian garb, malnourished and half-blind, camped with Aboriginal people in Western Australia and on the Nullarbor for decades, surrounded by her books, notes and artefacts. A self-taught ethnologist, desperate to be accepted by established male anthropologists, she sought to document the language and customs of the people who visited her camps. In 1935, Ernestine Hill, journalist and author of The Great Australian Loneliness, coaxed Bates to Adelaide to collaborate on a newspaper series. Their collaboration resulted in the 1938 international bestseller, The Passing of the Aborigines. This book informed popular opinion about Aboriginal people for decades, though Bates's failure to acknowledge Hill as her co-author strained their friendship. Traversing great distances in a campervan, Eleanor Hogan reflects on the lives and work of these indefatigable women. From a contemporary perspective, their work seems quaint and sentimental, their outlook and preoccupations dated, paternalistic and even racist. Yet Bates and Hill took a genuine interest in Aboriginal people and their cultures long before they were considered worthy of the Australian mainstream's attention. With sensitivity and insight, Hogan wonders what their legacies as fearless female outliers might be.
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