LEADER 03951 am 22006253u 450 001 9910132293103321 005 20230524122245.0 010 $a1-925021-96-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000347212 035 $a(EBL)3543967 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001533209 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12651866 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001533209 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11495426 035 $a(PQKB)10510234 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3543967 035 $a(OCoLC)890971318 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00058930 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000347212 100 $a20150903h20142014 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---uuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn the eye of the beholder $ewhat six nineteenth-century women tell us about Indigenous authority and identity /$fBarbara Dawson 210 1$aCanberra, Australia :$cAustralian National University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (xxv, 195 pages) $cillustrations; digital, PDF file(s) 225 0 $aOpen Access e-Books 225 0 $aKnowledge Unlatched 311 08$aPrint version: 9781925021967 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 1. Sowing the Seeds for Nineteenth-century and Early Twentieth-century Women's Writing -- 2. Early Perceptions of Aborigines - Eliza Fraser's Legacy: 'Through a Glass Darkly' -- 3. Literary Excesses - Eliza Davies: Imagination and Fabrication -- 4. Queensland Frontier Adventure - Emily Cowl: Excitement and Humour -- 5. An Early, Short-term Settler - Katherine Kirkland: Valuable Insights Through the Silences -- 6. Mary McConnel: Christianising the Aborigines? -- 327 $a7. Australian-born Settler - Rose Scott Cowen: Acknowledging Indigenous Humanity and Integrity -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: The Works of the Women Writers -- Appendix B: The Works of Other Australian Women Writers Referred to in this Book. 330 $aThis book offers a fresh perspective in the debate on settler perceptions of Indigenous Australians. It draws together a suite of little known colonial women (apart from Eliza Fraser) and investigates their writings for what they reveal about their attitudes to, views on and beliefs about Aboriginal people, as presented in their published works. The way that reader expectations and publishers requirements slanted their representations forms part of this analysis. All six women write of their first-hand experiences on Australian frontiers of settlement. The division into adventurers (Eliza Fraser, Eliza Davies and Emily Cowl) and longer-term settlers (Katherine Kirkland, Mary McConnel and Rose Scott Cowen) allows interrogation into the differing representations between those with a transitory knowledge of Indigenous people and those who had a close and more permanent relationship with Indigenous women, even encompassing individual friendship. More pertinently, the book strives to reveal the aspects, largely overlooked in colonial narratives, of Indigenous agency, authority and individuality. 606 $aWomen pioneers$zAustralia$xAttitudes$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAboriginal Australians$xPublic opinion 606 $aPublic opinion$zAustralia 606 $aAboriginal Australians, Treatment of$zAustralia$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aAustralia$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aWomen pioneers$xAttitudes$xHistory 615 0$aAboriginal Australians$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aPublic opinion 615 0$aAboriginal Australians, Treatment of$xHistory 676 $a305.40994 700 $aDawson$b Barbara$g(Barbara Chambers),$0803304 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910132293103321 996 $aIn the eye of the beholder$92133309 997 $aUNINA