Australia through women's eyes / Ann Standish
- Bib ID:
- 4550861
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Standish, Ann
- Description:
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- North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishing ; Melbourne : State Library of Victoria, 2008
- viii, 336 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781921509070
- Summary:
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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"..
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 274-292.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
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- 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-
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- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2008
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