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'This article focuses on the representation of girlhood, gender and mateship particular to Australia, and to a lesser extent New Zealand, within the context of an emerging nationalism, social change and political upheaval. In it, I apply an illustrator’s perspective to interrogating the cultural significance of Mary Grant Bruce’s iconic outback heroine, Norah of Billabong Station. By comparatively examining Norah’s sequential representation in the narrative text, and the illustrations produced by John MacFarlane, I argue Bruce and her little-known, and rarely discussed immigrant illustrator combined to create an ideal and national type that was counter to anything that had been created for colonial girl readers before.' (Author's abstract)
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She Rides Astride : Mateship, Morality and the Outback-Colonial Girl
Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies
Subjects:
- A History of Australian Children's Literature 1841-1941 1969 reference criticism
- Norah of Billabong 1913 single work children's fiction
- Gray's Hollow 1914 single work novel
- Reading Race : Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature 2001 single work criticism
- A Little Bush Maid 1905 single work children's fiction
- A History of the Book in Australia, 1891-1945 : A National Culture in a Colonised Market 2001 anthology criticism
- A History of Australian Children's Book Illustration 1982 single work criticism
- Captain Jim 1919 single work children's fiction
- Australian Women Who Write 1935 single work column
- An Ogre Up-To-Date 1911 selected work children's fiction poetry
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