Women and Empire, 1750-1939: Primary Sources on Gender and Anglo-Imperialism
Edited by Susan K. Martin; Caroline Daley; Elizabeth Dimock; Cheryl Cassidy; Cecily Devereux
- Published: 26 Jan 2009
- DOI: 10.4324/9780415310925
- Set ISBN: 9780415310925
Set Contents
Australia
Volume Contents
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Front Matter
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Introduction By Susan K. Martin; Caroline Daley; Elizabeth Dimock; Cheryl Cassidy; Cecily Devereux
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Imperial Views
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1Report on Male and Female Convicts Sent from England and Ireland to New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land in 1828 and 1829, House of Commons Papers (1830), pp. 4–10.
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2The Kangaroo Hunters; or, Adventures in the Bush (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1858), Preface, Ch. XVII, pp. 229–41. By Anne Bowman
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3‘Letter II’, Letters to Guy (London: Macmillan, 1885), pp. 15–27. By Mary Anne Barker
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4‘Lady Emigrants to Australia’, The Times, 24 Sept. 1853, p. 10.
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5‘Governesses for Australia’, The Times, 23 Apr. 1862, p. 6.
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6Younâh: A Tasmanian Aboriginal Romance of the Cataract Gorge (Hobart, Tasmania: Mercury Office, 1894), pp. 36, 37, 40–2. By Mrs Thrower
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7By Still Harder Fate (Melbourne: George Robertson & Co., 1898), Bk 2, Ch. 1, pp. 81–9. By Nancy Lloyd-Tayler
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Ordering Disorderly Women
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8‘To the Editor of the Colonial Times’, Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 18 Nov. 1825, p. 3.
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9‘The Female Factory’, Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 16 June 1826, p. 3.
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10Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 14 July 1826, p. 2 (editorial on Female Factory).
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11‘A Batchelor Settler, Macquarie River’, ‘Mr Editor’, Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 28 July 1826, p. 4.
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12Rules and Regulations for the Management of the House of Correction for Females (Hobart Town: J. Ross, 1829) (Mitchell Library, SLNSW DSM/365/T), pp. 1–14, 20–26. By J. Ross
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13The Moreton Bay Courier 1 (24), 28 Nov. 1846, p. 2 (Report of the Transportation Committee).
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14‘Dreadful Death’, The Moreton Bay Courier 1 (44), 17 Apr. 1847, p. 3.
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15‘Regulations for Female Convicts in the General Prison at Perth’ (with handwritten amendments), Prison Board 520, 16 Aug. 1860 (Mitchell Library, SLNSW, DSM/Q365/W).
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16The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, A Lifer (London: Richard Bentley, 1859), Bk 2, Ch. 1, pp. 1–7. By Eliza Winstanley
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17A Report of the Inquiry into the Management of the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum, As Detailed in the Nine Days’ Trial of the Action for Libel Bowie v. Wilson (Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon, 1862), pp. 3, 7, 20–5, 56–7, 74–5, 82–3, 118–19. By Bowie V. Wilson
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18‘Female Pugilism – Ellen Story & Ellen Whewell’, Argus, 5 Oct. 1853, p. 5.
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19‘News and Notes’, Ballarat Star, 25 Apr. 1864, p. 2.
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20‘The Yarra Mystery’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 Jan. 1899, p. 5.
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21‘An Alleged Unlawful Operation’, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 Jan. 1899, p. 3.
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Femail Mobility, Immigration, and Work
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22‘To the Editor of the Colonial Times’, Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 1 Dec. 1826, p. 3 (gender ratios).
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23‘The Renewal of Transportation’, Moreton Bay Courier, 31 Oct. 1846, p. 2 (balancing men and women). 120
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24‘Mrs Chisholm’, Moreton Bay Courier, 25 Mar. 1848, p. 3.
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25Three poems to Caroline Chisholm (one by Walter Savage Landor), 1846 and 1853 (Caroline Chisholm Papers, Mitchell Library, SLNSW, ML Ac 19-1/6).
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26‘Testimonial to Mrs Chisholm’, Times, 8 Aug. 1853 (Caroline Chisholm Papers, Mitchell Library, SLNSW, ML Ac 19-2/15).
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27The Emigrant’s Guide to Australia: With a Memoir of Mrs Chisholm (London: Clarke, Beeton & Co. [1853]), frontispiece, title page, pp. 36–7, 102–7.
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28Appendix to Emigration and Transportation Relatively Considered by Mrs Chisholm (London: John Olliver, 1847), pp. 22–8. By Caroline Chisholm
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29‘Female Immigrants’, Argus, 2 Feb. 1849, p. 2.
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30‘Orphan Immigration’, Argus, 4 Sept. 1849, p. 2.
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31‘Orphan Immigrants’, Argus, 29 Apr. 1850, p. 2.
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Women Settlers
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32‘Narrow Escape’, Moreton Bay Courier, 3 Oct. 1846, pp. 2–3.
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33Adventures in Australia or, the Wanderings of Captain Spencer in the Bush and the Wilds (London: Grant and Griffith, 1851), pp. 339–43, 359–60. By Mrs E. Lee
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34Gertrude the Emigrant: A Tale of Colonial Life by an Australian Lady (Sydney: J. R. Clarke, 1857), pp. 21–9. By Louisa Atkinson
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35What We Saw in Australia (London: Macmillan, 1875), pp. 243–5 (difficulties with servants). By Rosamund Hill; Florence Hill
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36‘An Australian Heroine’, The Dawn, 1 June 1893, pp. 12–13. By C. F. Searle
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37Broad Outlines of Long Years in Australia (London: Samuel Tinsley & Co., 1878), pp. 152–3, 155.
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38Letters to Mrs Stokes, 1882 (manuscript) (1882 SLWA, ACC689A).
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39‘Out of My Grandmother’s Box’, My Australian Girlhood: Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902), pp. 36–39. By Rosa Campbell Praed
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Missionaries and Travellers
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40‘Natives of South Australian: And Missions There’, The Juvenile Missionary Magazine 1 (5) (1844), pp. 111–14.
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41‘A Chinese Lady’, Ballarat Star, 26 Apr. 1864, p. 2.
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42What We Saw in Australia (London: Macmillan, 1875), pp. 291–2 (benevolent asylum, women’s wards). By Rosamund Hill; Florence Hill
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43‘Heartrending Distress’, Ballarat Star, 15 Apr. 1864.
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44‘Death of a Sister of Mercy’, WA Record, 23 Nov. 1893, p. 8.
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45‘The First Meeting of the Ladies’ Committee of the Paddington Benevolent Society’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 Jan. 1899, p. 5.
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46‘Missionary Exhibition at Bowral’, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 Jan. 1899, p. 12.
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47‘Useful Institutions in the Metropolis’, The Dawn, 5 Nov. 1889, p. 7. By Brier Rose
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48‘The Dog Days’, Australian Journal, Apr. 1869, pp. 482–4. By Waif Wander
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49Around the World (Toronto: James Murray [?1886–94]), p. 60 (comparison of Canadian and Australian girls). By Lydia Leavitt
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50Glimpses of Four Continents: Letters Written During a Tour in Australia, New Zealand, & North America, in 1893 (London: John Murray, 1894), pp. 60–6. By Alice Anne Montgomery
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Aboriginal Women and Empire
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51‘Curious and Original Account of the Natives of New South Wales’, Granger’s Wonderful Museum, 1804, vol. 2, pp. 814–22 (London: Hogg and Co., [?1803–8]). By William Granger
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52‘The Aborigines of Australia’, Port Phillip Christian Herald, 7 Mar. 1842, pp. 20–2.
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53‘Yarra Aboriginal Mission’, Port Phillip Christian Herald, 4 June 1842, pp. 153–4.
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54‘Yarra Aboriginal Mission’, Port Phillip Christian Herald, 4 July 1842, pp. 52–3.
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55‘Tasmanian Aborigines’, extracted from Tasmanian Journal, 1846 in Tasmanian Athenaeum 1 (3) (Dec. 1853), pp. 86–9.
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56‘The Aborigines of Western Australia’, Western Australian Church of England Magazine 6 (10) (Feb. 1868), pp. 25–32.
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57Kooroona: A Tale of South Australia (Oxford: Mowbray; London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1871), pp. 177–80, 187–91.
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58What We Saw in Australia (London: Macmillan, 1875), pp. 103–5 (description of elderly Aboriginal women). By Rosamund Hill; Florence Hill
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59‘A Word for the Blacks’, The Dawn, 1 Nov. 1897, p. 9. Edited by Louisa Lawson
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The Australian Girl and the Australian Lady
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60‘Australia’, The Times, 15 June 1863, p. 6 (article on genteel ‘milkwoman’).
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61‘The News of the Day’, Age, 26 Dec. 1863, p. 4 (includes letter from Henrietta Dugdale; rejoinder to item no. 60).
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62Broad Outlines of Long Years in Australia (London: Samuel Tinsley & Co., 1878), p. 164.
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63Advance Australia! An Account of Eight Years’ Work, Wandering, and Amusement, in Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria, 2nd edn (London: W. H. Allen & Co, 1886), pp. 279, 281. By Harold Finch-Hatton
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64‘Muscular Development of Girls’, The Dawn, 5 Nov. 1889, p. 13.
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65‘In Search of a Title: Adventures of an Australian Heiress’, WA Record, May 1893, p. 4.
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66‘The Colonial Girl’, The Dawn, 1 June 1894, pp. 9–10.
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67‘An Australian Girl’, A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, ed. Clarence Stedman (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1895), p. 632. By Ethel Castilla
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68Joyce Martindale (London: Remington, 1894), pp. 1–7. By H. E. Russell
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69A Humble Enterprise (London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1896), pp. 24–44. By Ada Cambridge
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Performances
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70‘Grand Amateur Performance . . . at the Theatre Royal’, Ballarat Star, 25 Apr. 1864, p. 3.
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71‘Mrs Webster v. Morwitch’, Ballarat Star, 21 Apr. 1864, p. 3.
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72What We Saw in Australia (London: Macmillan, 1875), p. 264 (Miss Martha Turner, religious celebrant). By Rosamund Hill; Florence Hill
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73What We Saw in Australia (London: Macmillan, 1875), p. 190–1 (young Aboriginal woman mimics/parodies Government House ladies). By Rosamund Hill; Florence Hill
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74The Newest Woman (Melbourne: Sportsman, 1895), pp. 38–59. By Millie Finkelstein
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75‘Triumph’, The Three Miss Kings (Melbourne: Melville Mullen & Slade, 1891), pp. 61–7. By Ada Cambridge
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Women and Imperial Law
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76‘Deserting a Wife’, Argus, 14 July 1849, p. 2.
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77‘Assaulting a Bailiff ’, Argus, 4 Sept. 1849, p. 2.
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78‘Warra’, ‘Queensland Women’s Property Act’, The Dawn, 1 Oct. 1897, p. 10. By Warra
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79WA Register, 18 Jan. 1894, p. 9 (hanging of Mrs Knorr).
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Feminism and Empire
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80What We Saw in Australia (London: Macmillan, 1875), p. 262 (women accidentally included on electoral roll). By Rosamund Hill; Florence Hill
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81Mr Fumecrab’s Breakfast Table Lectures (Melbourne: M’Carron Bird, 1881), pp. 1–11. SARAH WELCH Feminist Publishing and The Dawn By Sarah Welch
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82‘About Ourselves’, The Dawn, 15 May 1888, p. 1. Edited by Dora. Falconer
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83‘To the Editress’, The Dawn, 15 May 1888, Supplement.
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84‘To the Editress’, The Dawn, 1 May 1889, p. 24.
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85‘Our Anniversary’, The Dawn, 1 May 1895, pp. 14–15.
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86‘Let Our Girls Become Really Thorough Saleswomen’, The Dawn, 1 June 1889, p. 10.
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87‘The Dawn Club: A Social Reform Club for Women’, The Dawn, 1 July 1889, p. 8.
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88‘That Nonsensical Idea’, The Dawn, 5 June 1890, pp. 7–9.
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89‘Women’s Business College’, The Dawn, 1 Sept. 1891, p. 22.
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90‘The Enfranchisement of Women’, WA Record, 29 Oct. 1891, p. 8 (advertisement for Warner’s Pills).
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91‘An Unwomanly Woman’, WA Record, 28 Apr. 1892, p. 9 (‘anti-marriage’ talk denounced).
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92‘The New Woman’, The Dawn, 1 May 1899, p. 7.
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93‘To Our Readers’, The Dawn, 1 Dec. 1899, p. 7 (women and war). Rose Scott and the NSW Suffrage Movement
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94‘Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales’, The Dawn, 1 Sept. 1896, p. 14.
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95‘To the Commissioners for Taxation’ (Rose Scott Papers, Mitchell Library, SLNSW MLMSS 38).
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96Letter, 4 Dec. 1899 (Rose Scott Papers, Mitchell Library, SLNSW MLMSS 38). ROSE SCOTT Suffrage in South Australia By Rose Scott
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97‘A Petition Against the Present Bill for Granting Woman’s Suffrage’, South Australian Register, 23 Aug. 1894, p. 4.
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98‘Delighted Women’, South Australian Register, 10 Apr. 1895, p. 5. xiv
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Imperial Homes, or Public Women?
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99Marian, or the Light of Someone’s Home, 2nd English edn (Bath: Binns & Goodwin, [1859]), pp. 210–31. By Maud Jean Franc
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100Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac (1870), p. 22 (women’s days at a Turkish Baths).
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101Kooroona: A Tale of South Australia (Oxford: Mowbray; London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1871), Ch. VIII, pp. 84–90 (employment of servants).
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102What We Saw in Australia (London: Macmillan, 1875), p. 204 (presence of a lady ensures reproduction of English comfort and garden). By Rosamund Hill; Florence Hill
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103What We Saw in Australia (London: Macmillan, 1875), pp. 184–5 (Aboriginal women’s domestic arrangements). By Rosamund Hill; Florence Hill
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104‘Girls as Housekeepers’, The Dawn, 3 Aug. 1889, p. 7.
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105‘Gardening for Women’, The Dawn, 1 June 1891, p. 14.
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106‘Hints on Gardening’, 1 Feb. 1898, p. 17. By Sarah Sparrow
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107What We Saw in Australia (London: Macmillan, 1875), p. 299–300. By Rosamund Hill; Florence Hill
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108What We Saw in Australia (London: Macmillan, 1875), p. 267 (‘Doing the Block’ – public promenade in Melbourne). By Rosamund Hill; Florence Hill
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109The Three Miss Kings (Melbourne: Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1891), pp. 76–81, 99–104. By Ada Cambridge
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End of Empire?
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110‘The Federation of Australia’ (Sydney: Turner and Henderson, Printers, 1898) (poem/pamphlet). By H. E. Russell
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111Under the She-Oaks, 2nd edn (London: The Religious Tract Society, [?1903]) (account of Jubilee celebrations in Australia and Queen Victoria’s death) (extracts). By Elisabeth Boyd Bayly
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