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'First appearance of this story [as The Mother and The Wonder-Child : an Australian story] in serial form in 22 issues of the Girls Own Annual between April 27th (no. 1113) and September 21st 1901 (no. 1134). This was the first appearance of Turner in the journal.' (Libraries Australia record).
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Epigraph: 'The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, / Is, not to fancy what were fair in life, / Provided it could be, - but finding first / What may be, then find how to make it fair / Up to our means.' -- Robert Browning.
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The Antipodes of Victorian Fiction : Mapping 'Down Under'
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Victorian Popular Fictions , Autumn vol. 1 no. 2 2019;'Victorian settler fiction produced in colonial Australia and New Zealand increasingly expressed a search for settler identity, and yet it partly remained targeted at readers “at home,” at the centre of the British Empire. Nineteenth-century novels of daily life in the colonial settlements, therefore, also functioned as fictional maps for readers in Victorian Britain and elsewhere in the expanding empire. While some of these publications explicitly addressed potential emigrants, others endeavoured to reshape Britain’s antipodes in the popular imagination more generally. Australian and New Zealand women writers dismantled clichés involving bush-rangers, gold-diggers, as well as escaped convicts and resented returnees. By drawing on a variety of settler novels by female authors, I aim to track how their fictional maps for readers overseas worked and how these maps shifted in the course of the century. In particular, I focus on the motif of the homecoming and how its reworking in nineteenth-century settler fiction reveals shifting attitudes towards emigration and empire, homemaking and homecoming, old and new homes.'
Source: Abstract.
- y From a Chair in the Sun: The Life of Ethel Turner Ringwood : Viking , 1994 Z91328 1994 single work biography
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New Books
1901
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 7 December vol. 63 no. 1661 1901; (p. 57)
— Review of When Winds Awake : Verses 1901 selected work poetry ; The Wonder-Child : An Australian Story 1900-1999 single work children's fiction
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New Books
1901
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 7 December vol. 63 no. 1661 1901; (p. 57)
— Review of When Winds Awake : Verses 1901 selected work poetry ; The Wonder-Child : An Australian Story 1900-1999 single work children's fiction - y From a Chair in the Sun: The Life of Ethel Turner Ringwood : Viking , 1994 Z91328 1994 single work biography
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The Antipodes of Victorian Fiction : Mapping 'Down Under'
2019
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Victorian Popular Fictions , Autumn vol. 1 no. 2 2019;'Victorian settler fiction produced in colonial Australia and New Zealand increasingly expressed a search for settler identity, and yet it partly remained targeted at readers “at home,” at the centre of the British Empire. Nineteenth-century novels of daily life in the colonial settlements, therefore, also functioned as fictional maps for readers in Victorian Britain and elsewhere in the expanding empire. While some of these publications explicitly addressed potential emigrants, others endeavoured to reshape Britain’s antipodes in the popular imagination more generally. Australian and New Zealand women writers dismantled clichés involving bush-rangers, gold-diggers, as well as escaped convicts and resented returnees. By drawing on a variety of settler novels by female authors, I aim to track how their fictional maps for readers overseas worked and how these maps shifted in the course of the century. In particular, I focus on the motif of the homecoming and how its reworking in nineteenth-century settler fiction reveals shifting attitudes towards emigration and empire, homemaking and homecoming, old and new homes.'
Source: Abstract.