First published in 2008. Women and Empire, 1750-1939 functions to extend significantly the range of the History of Feminism series (co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse), bringing together the histories of British and American women's emancipation, represented in earlier sets, into juxtaposition with histories produced by different kinds of imperial and colonial governments. The alignment of writings from a range of Anglo-imperial contexts reveals the overlapping histories and problems, while foregrounding cultural specificities and contextual inflections of imperialism. The volumes focus on countries, regions, or continents formerly colonized (in part) by Britain: Volume I: Australia, Volume II: New Zealand, Volume III: Africa, Volume IV: India, Volume V: Canada. Perhaps the most novel aspect of this collection is its capacity to highlight the common aspects of the functions of empire in their impact on women and their production of gender, and conversely, to demonstrate the actual specificity of particular regional manifestations. Concerning questions of power, gender, class and race, this new Routledge-Edition Synapse Major Work will be of particular interest to scholars and students of imperialism, colonization, women's history, and women's writing.
Volume I (Australia) A. Imperial Views, Official Views, 1. Report 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)
2. Anne Bowman, The Kangaroo Hunters; or, Adventures in the Bush (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1858), Preface, Ch. XVII, pp. 229-41
3. Lady [Mary Anne] Barker (Lady Broome), 'Letter II', Letters to Guy (London: Macmillan, 1885), pp. 15-27
Media Views
4. 'Lady Emigrants to Australia', The Times, 24 Sept. 1853, p. 10
5. 'Governesses for Australia', The Times, 23 Apr. 1862, p. 6
Personal Views of and from Australia
6. Mrs Thrower, Younah: A Tasmanian Aboriginal Romance of the Cataract Gorge (Hobart, Tasmania: Mercury Office, 1894), pp. 36, 37, 40-2
7. Nancy Lloyd-Tayler, By Still Harder Fate (Melbourne: George Robertson & Co., 1898), Bk. 2, Ch. 1, pp. 81-9
B. Ordering Disorderly Women
Convict Women
8. 'To the Editor of the Colonial Times', Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 18 Nov. 1825, p. 3
9. 'The Female Factory', Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 16 June 1826, p. 3
10. Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 14 July 1826, p. 2 (editorial on Female Factory)
11. 'A Batchelor Settler, Macquarie River', 'Mr Editor', Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 28 July 1826, p. 4
12. Rules and Regulations for the Management of the House of Correction for Females (Hobart Town: J. Ross, 1829) (Mitchell Library, SLNSW DSM/365/T)
13. The Moreton Bay Courier, Vol. 1, No. 24, 28 Nov. 1846, p. 2 (Report of the Transportation Committee)
14. 'Dreadful Death', The Moreton Bay Courier, Vol. 1, No. 44, 17 Apr. 1847, p. 3
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)
16. Oline Keese [Eliza Winstanley], The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, A Lifer (London: Richard Bentley, 1859), Bk. 2, Ch. 1, pp. 1-47
Women Out of Order
17. A 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. 1-3, 6-7, 20-5, 56-7, 74-5, 82-3, 118-19
18. 'Female Pugilism-Ellen Story & Ellen Whewell', Argus, 5 Oct. 1853, p. 5
19. 'News and Notes', Ballarat Star, 25 Apr. 1864, p. 2
20. 'The Yarra Mystery', Sydney Morning Herald, 12 Jan. 1899, p. 5
21. 'An Alleged Unlawful Operation', Sydney Morning Herald, 13 Jan. 1899, p. 3
C. Female Mobility, Immigration, and Work
22. 'To the Editor of the Colonial Times ', Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser, 1 Dec. 1826, p. 3 (gender ratios)
23. 'The Renewal of Transportation', Moreton Bay Courier, 31 Oct. 1846, p. 2 (balancing men and women)
24. 'Mrs Chisholm', Moreton Bay Courier, 25 Mar. 1848, p. 3
25. Three poems to Caroline Chisholm (one by Walter Savage Landor), 1846 and 1853 (Caroline Chisholm Papers, Mitchell Library, SLNSW, ML Ac 19-1/6)
26. 'Testimonial to Mrs Chisholm', Times, 8 Aug. 1853 (Caroline Chisholm Papers, Mitchell Library, SLNSW, ML Ac 19-2/15)
27. The Emigrant's Guide to Australia: With a Memoir of Mrs Chisholm (London: Clarke, Beeton & Co. [1853]), frontispiece, title page, pp. 36-7, 102-7
28. Mrs Chisholm [Caroline Chisholm], Appendix to Emigration and Transportation Relatively Considered by Mrs Chisholm (London: John Olliver, 1847), pp. 22-8
29. 'Female Immigrants', Argus, 2 Feb. 1849, p. 2
30. 'Orphan Immigration', Argus, 4 Sept. 1849, p. 2
31. 'Orphan Immigrants', Argus, 29 Apr. 1850, p. 2
D. Women Settlers
32. 'Narrow Escape', Moreton Bay Courier, 3 Oct. 1846, pp. 2-3
33. Mrs R. Lee, Adventures in Australia or, the Wanderings of Captain Spencer in the Bush and the Wilds (London: Grant and Griffith, 1851), pp. 339-43, 359-60
34. Louisa Atkinson, Gertrude the Emigrant: A Tale of Colonial Life by an Australian Lady (Sydney: J. R. Clarke, 1857), pp. 21-9
35. Rosamund Hill and Florence Hill, What We Saw in Australia (London: Macmillan, 1875), pp. 243-5 (difficulties with servants)
36. C. F. Searle, 'An Australian Heroine', The Dawn, 1 June 1893, pp. 12-13
37. Mrs Henry Jones of Binnum Binnum, Broad Outlines of Long Years in Australia (London: Samuel Tinsley & Co., 1878), pp. 149, 152-5
38. Fanny Holder, Letters to Mrs Stokes, 1882 (manuscript) (1882 SLWA, ACC689A)
39. Rosa Campbell Praed, 'Out of My Grandmother's Box', My Australian Girlhood: Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902), Ch. III
E. Missionaries and Travellers
Good Works
40. 'Natives of South Australian: And Missions There', The Juvenile Missionary Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, 1844, pp. 111-14
41. 'A Chinese Lady', Ballarat Star, 26 Apr. 1864, p. 2
42. Rosamund Hill and Florence Hill, What We Saw in Australia (London: Macmillan, 1875), pp. 291-2 (benevolent asylum, women's wards)
43. 'Heartrending Distress', Ballarat Star, 15 Apr. 1864
44. 'Death of a Sister of Mercy', WA Record 23 Nov. 1893, p. 8
45. 'The First Meeting of the Ladies' Committee of the Paddington Benevolent Society', Sydney Morning Herald, 12 Jan. 1899, p. 5
46. 'Missionary Exhibition at Bowral', Sydney Morning Herald, 14 Jan. 1899, p. 12
47. Brier Rose, 'Useful Institutions in the Metropolis', The Dawn, 5 Nov. 1889, p. 7
48. Waif Wander, 'The Dog Days', Australian Journal, Apr. 1869, pp. 482-4
Travellers
49. Lydia Leavitt, Around the World (Toronto: James Murray [?1886-94]), p. 60 (comparison of Canadian and Australian girls)
50. Alice Anne Montgomery, Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, Glimpses of Four Continents: Letters Written During a Tour in Australia, New Zealand, & North America, in 1893 (London: John Murray, 1894), pp. 60-6
Section F. Aboriginal Women and Empire
51. William Granger, '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])
52. 'The Aborigines of Australia', Port Phillip Christian Herald, 7 Mar. 1842, pp. 20-2
53. 'Yarra Aboriginal Mission', Port Phillip Christian Herald, 4 June 1842, pp. 153-4
54. 'Yarra Aboriginal Mission', Port Phillip Christian Herald, 4 July 1842, pp. 52-3
55. 'Tasmanian Aborigines', extracted from Tasmanian Journal, 1846 in Tasmanian Athenaeum, Vol. 1, No. 3, Dec. 1853, pp. 86-9
56. 'The Aborigines of Western Australia', Western Australian Church of England Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 10, Feb. 1868, pp. 25-32
57. Iota, Kooroona: A Tale of South Australia (Oxford: Mowbray; London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1871), pp. 177-80, 187-91, 204-17
58. Rosamund Hill and Florence Hill, What We Saw in Australia (London: Macmillan, 1875), pp. 103-5 (description of elderly Aboriginal women)
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Biography
Cheryl Cassidy is Professor in the department of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University, USA. Her publications include Dying in the Light: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Female Obituaries. Caroline Daley is Associate Professor in the department of History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Leisure & Pleasure: Reshaping & Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960; Girls and Women, Men and Boys: Gender in Taradale 1886-1930; and co-editor of The Gendered Kiwi and Suffrage & Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives. Elizabeth Dimock is Honorary Research Associate & Seminar Convenor, African Research Institute, & History Program, Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia. Susan K Martin is an Associate Professor in the English program at La Trobe University, Australia. She is co-author of Reading the Garden: the Settlement of Australia, and co-editor of Green Pens: an Anthology of Australian Garden Writing.
