Silk culture
- Bib ID:
- 7128655
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Australia : [various publishers], [between 1864 and 1874]
- 12 pamphlets (bound in 1 volume) ; 24 cm
- Summary:
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A bound collection of pamphlets assembled by Jessie Grover, one of the shareholders in the Victorian Ladies' Sericicultural Company, with her signature and address on the front endpaper above an example of the Company’s embossed letterhead, and with a number of annotations by her passim. The Company, headed by Mrs Bladen Neill, was a pioneering women’s business initiative, the shareholdings restricted to women. Land for the project was bought near Castlemaine and mulberry trees planted but the climate and terrain proved unsuitable and the Company collapsed within a few years.—Based on a catalogue entry by Peter Arnold, Antiquarian Booksellers, June 2016.
- Full contents:
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- [1] Bees, silkworms, and the aquarium: with instructions to their management (London : Ward, Lock, and Co., [1868]) (lacking title page; an abridgement of The Book of Home Pets by Samuel Orchart Beeton (1831-1877), including chapters on The Bee, The Silkworm (pages 26-32), Aquarium, and Ferns
- [2] Some new industries for South Australia. Silkworms, mulberry, olives, tobacco, etc., etc. / Samuel Davenport (Adelaide, 1864)
- [3] Silk Supply Association, founded on the 8th of February 1869. Rules of the Coventry Branch, founded September 7th, 1869. (Coventry: Printed by E. Goode and Price, 1869)
- [4] Silk supply. A handbook on the history of silk, the rearing of the silkworm, and the culture of the mulberry tree (Coventry: Published by the Committee of the Coventry Branch of the Silk Supply Assiciation, [1869?])
- [5] Short instructions for rearing silkworms (in small quantities) in private families / George Francis (Adelaide, 1870)
- [6] The ailant silkworm : observations on its habit, management, food and value / Charles Brady (Sydney, 1868)
- [7] Correspondence relating to cultivation of silk. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command (Sydney, 1870)
- [8] The introduction of new rural industries into Victoria / William O'Hea (Melbourne, 1871)
- [9] The silk-worm: its education, reproduction and regeneration, on M. Alfred Roland’s open-air system / Mrs Bladen Neill (Melbourne, 1873)
- [10] Memorandum & articles of association / Victorian Ladies’ Sericicultural Company Limited (Melbourne, 1873, Together with a printed notice of a shareholders’ meeting, 1874)
- [11] Sericiculture in Queensland: being report of a lecture / William Coote (Brisbane, 1874)
- [12] On the growth of silk and the practical management of the silkworm in South Australia / George Francis (Adelaide, 1871)
- Biography/History:
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Jessie Grover (1843-1906), journalist and sericulturist, was born on 9 June 1843 in Melbourne, youngest of four children of William McGuire, innkeeper, and his wife Elizabeth Jane, née Price. In 1869 she married Harry Ehret Grover, an Eton-educated Englishman, who had migrated in 1851 and had been a police trooper at Shepparton. In 1873 Jessie and her friend Mrs Sara Florentia Bladen-Neill decided that congenial work could be provided for women if a silk production industry was established. They formed the Victorian Ladies' Sericultural Co. Ltd, with Jessie as managing director. The company articles specified that 'No person but a woman shall be eligible as a Director'. Prominent Melbourne women took up most of the £4 shares. The government made a grant of 600 acres (242.8 ha) of hilly land at Harcourt, near the Mount Alexander diggings, where bluestone buildings were erected and thousands of mulberry trees planted. The surveyor had fixed on the wrong location, however, and the enterprise collapsed after several years of intensive effort.—Michael Montague Cannon, 'Grover, Jessie (1843–1906)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/grover-jessie-12956, accessed online 22 July 2016.
- Notes:
- Spine title.
- Related Material:
- Papers of Montague Grover, circa 1810-1980, including the papers of his parents, Jessie and Harry Ehret Grover, are held in the National Library of Australia's Manuscript Collection at MS 6268.
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1906
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- Unpublished
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