Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 [Review] Eliza Hamilton Dunlop: Writing from the Colonial Frontier
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'Best known for her “crying mother” poem written in response to the Myall Creek massacre in 1838, the Anglo-Irish poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (1796–1880) is a transcolonial figure with familial, literary and political connections to Ireland, India and Australia. Raised by her paternal grandmother in Ireland, her father worked as an attorney in India (where she would travel in her 20s), while her second husband, David Dunlop, was deeply involved in progressive Ulster politics before becoming the police magistrate in Wollombi and Macdonald River in New South Wales. This new edited collection by Anna Johnston and Elizabeth Webby addresses the scholarly lacunae on Dunlop, shifting the dominance of readings of “The Aboriginal Mother” (1838) in favour of emphasising the transcolonialism of Dunlop’s writing and embedding her work within a global print network.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Journal of Australian Studies Surveilling Minds and Bodies : Sexualities, Medicine and the Law vol. 46 no. 3 2022 24901619 2022 periodical issue 2022 pg. 389-390
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