Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Colonial girlhood in literature, culture and history, 1840-1950
Other Name
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture (Series)
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Place
Date
2014
Physical Description
xv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781137356345
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
1. Colonial Girlhood/Colonial Girls / Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith
PART I: THEORISING THE COLONIAL GIRL
2. Colonialism: What Girlhoods Can Tell Us / Angela Woollacott
3. Fashioning the Colonial Girl: 'Made in Britain' Femininity in the Imperial Archive / Cecily Devereux
PART II: ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE
4. 'Explorations in Industry': Careers, Romance, and the Future of the Colonial Australian Girl / Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
5. Deflecting the Marriage Plot: The British and Indigenous Girl in 'Robina Crusoe and Her Lonely Island Home' (1882-1883) / Terri Doughty
6. Coming of Age in Colonial India: The Discourse and Debate over the Age of Consummation in the Nineteenth Century / Subhasri Ghosh
PART III: RACE AND CLASS
7. 'My blarsted greenstone throne!': Maori Princesses and Nationhood in New Zealand Fiction for Girls / Clare Bradford
8. Black Princesses or Domestic Servants: The Portrayal of Indigenous Australian Girlhood in Colonial Children's Literature / Juliet O'Conor
9. The Jam and Matchsticks Problem: Working-Class Girlhood in Late Nineteenth-Century Cape Town / S. E. Duff
PART IV: FICTIONS OF COLONIAL GIRLHOOD
10. The Colonial Girl's Own Papers: Girl Authors, Editors, and Australian Girlhood in Ethel Turner's Three Little Maids / Tamara S. Wagner
11. 'I am glad I am Irish through and through and through': Irish Girlhood and Identity in L.T. Meade's Light O' the Morning; or, The Story of an Irish Girl (1899) / Beth Rodgers
12. Making Space for the Irish Girl: Rosa Mulholland and Irish Girls in Fiction at the Turn of the Century / Susan Cahill
13. Education and Work in Service of the Nation: Canadian and Australian Girls' Fiction, 1908-1921 / Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith
PART V: MATERIAL CULTURE
14. Picturing Girlhood and Empire: The Guide Movement and Photography / Kristine Alexander
15. Material Girls: Daughters, Dress, and Distance in the Trans-Imperial Family / Laura Ishiguro
16. An Unexpected History Lesson: Meeting European 'Colonial Girls' through Knitting, Weaving, Spinning, and Cups of Tea / Fiona P. McDonald.
Public Access Text
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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