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'Challenging the popular disparagement of Australian literature and of women writers, Spender set out to identify and find Australia's women writers and their writings and to evaluate them for herself. Her study covers approximately 200 women.'
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England,c
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United Kingdom (UK),c
Western Europe,
Europe,:Pandora
, 1988 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.-
Catherine Helen Spence and Catherine Martin,
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(p. 176-184)Spender discusses the fact that both Catherine Helen Spence and Catherine Martin were advocates of human rights, using their fiction for social change. Their viewpoints were both Australian and assertively feminine.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Eliza Hamilton Dunlop's 'The Aboriginal Mother' : Romanticism, Anti Slavery and Imperial Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-12) 'This paper positions the work of colonial poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop amongst international Romantic poetry of the period, and argues that Dunlop's poetry reflects a transposition of Romantic women's poetry to Australia. Dunlop's poetry, such as 'The Aboriginal Mother', demonstrates the relationship of Romantic women's poetry to early feminism and Social Reform. As with the work of Felicia Hemans, Dunlop was interested in the role of women, and the 'domestic' as they related to broader national and political concerns. Dunlop seems to have been consciously applying the tropes, such as that of the mother, of anti slavery poetry found within American, British, and international poetic traditions to the Australian aboriginal context. Themes of indigenous motherhood, and also of Sati or widow burning in India, and human rights had been favored by early women's rights campaigners in Britain from the 1820s, focusing on abolition of slavery through the identification of white women with the Negro mother. Dunlop's comparative sympathy for the situation of aboriginals in Australia has been given critical attention as the aspect which makes her work valuable. However, in this essay I hope to outline how Dunlop's poetry fits in to the international context of the engagement of Romantic women poets with Western Imperialist models and colonial Others.' (Author's abstract)
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Untitled
1990
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review
— Appears in: Queen's Quarterly , vol. 97 no. 2 1990; (p. 332-333)
— Review of Writing a New World : Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers 1988 single work criticism -
Untitled
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , November no. 27 1990; (p. 101-102)
— Review of Coming Out from Under : Contemporary Australian Woman Writers 1988 selected work criticism ; Writing a New World : Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers 1988 single work criticism -
Pandora's Box of Books
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 15 no. 1 1989; (p. 98-101)
— Review of Writing a New World : Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers 1988 single work criticism ; Australian Women Writers : A Bibliographic Guide 1988 single work bibliography biography ; Coming Out from Under : Contemporary Australian Woman Writers 1988 selected work criticism -
Writing Her Story
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Meridian , October vol. 8 no. 2 1989; (p. 179-183)
— Review of Coming Out from Under : Contemporary Australian Woman Writers 1988 selected work criticism ; Her Selection : Writings by Nineteenth-Century Australian Women 1988 anthology short story correspondence extract ; A Bright and Fiery Troop : Australian Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century 1988 anthology criticism ; The Penguin Anthology of Australian Women's Writing 1988 anthology drama extract short story ; Writing a New World : Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers 1988 single work criticism ; Australian Women Writers : A Bibliographic Guide 1988 single work bibliography biography
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Reviews
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 14 no. 1 1989; (p. 118-122)
— Review of Writing a New World : Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers 1988 single work criticism ; A Bright and Fiery Troop : Australian Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century 1988 anthology criticism ; Women Writers and Australia : A Bibliography of Fiction, 19th Century to 1987 1988 single work bibliography ; Women and the Bush : Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition 1988 multi chapter work criticism ; Pen Portraits : Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia 1988 single work criticism ; Barbara Baynton : Between Two Worlds : A Biography 1989 single work biography -
Problems in Feminist Criticism
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 104 1988; (p. 24-27)
— Review of Coming Out from Under : Contemporary Australian Woman Writers 1988 selected work criticism ; Writing a New World : Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers 1988 single work criticism -
Writing Her Story
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Meridian , October vol. 8 no. 2 1989; (p. 179-183)
— Review of Coming Out from Under : Contemporary Australian Woman Writers 1988 selected work criticism ; Her Selection : Writings by Nineteenth-Century Australian Women 1988 anthology short story correspondence extract ; A Bright and Fiery Troop : Australian Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century 1988 anthology criticism ; The Penguin Anthology of Australian Women's Writing 1988 anthology drama extract short story ; Writing a New World : Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers 1988 single work criticism ; Australian Women Writers : A Bibliographic Guide 1988 single work bibliography biography -
Untitled
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , November no. 27 1990; (p. 101-102)
— Review of Coming Out from Under : Contemporary Australian Woman Writers 1988 selected work criticism ; Writing a New World : Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers 1988 single work criticism -
Untitled
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Queen's Quarterly , vol. 97 no. 2 1990; (p. 332-333)
— Review of Writing a New World : Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers 1988 single work criticism -
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop's 'The Aboriginal Mother' : Romanticism, Anti Slavery and Imperial Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-12) 'This paper positions the work of colonial poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop amongst international Romantic poetry of the period, and argues that Dunlop's poetry reflects a transposition of Romantic women's poetry to Australia. Dunlop's poetry, such as 'The Aboriginal Mother', demonstrates the relationship of Romantic women's poetry to early feminism and Social Reform. As with the work of Felicia Hemans, Dunlop was interested in the role of women, and the 'domestic' as they related to broader national and political concerns. Dunlop seems to have been consciously applying the tropes, such as that of the mother, of anti slavery poetry found within American, British, and international poetic traditions to the Australian aboriginal context. Themes of indigenous motherhood, and also of Sati or widow burning in India, and human rights had been favored by early women's rights campaigners in Britain from the 1820s, focusing on abolition of slavery through the identification of white women with the Negro mother. Dunlop's comparative sympathy for the situation of aboriginals in Australia has been given critical attention as the aspect which makes her work valuable. However, in this essay I hope to outline how Dunlop's poetry fits in to the international context of the engagement of Romantic women poets with Western Imperialist models and colonial Others.' (Author's abstract)
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