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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Genteel Pursuits in the Bush : Colonial Gentelwomen's Appreciation of Rural Australia in the Mid-Nineteen Century
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'Female British settlers’ lives in colonial Australia anfd their recreational pursuits are discussed in this article. Many colonial women informed their home audience of the peculiarities of their new lives in their letters, diaries, memoirs and travel books. Women’s texts differ considerably from men’s accounts because their emphasis is on the depiction of private life, family relationships and domestic concerns. In addition, these ladies also sought to depict the Australian colonies in terms of their botanical and ethnographical diversity as well as their history and social development.' Source: www.bod.com/ (sighted 11/07/2012).

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  • An earlier version of this paper was published in Ildikó Dömötör's Gentlewomen in the Bush : A Historical Interpretation of British Women's Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Rural Australia ( pp12-14, 111-113, 134-143).

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