Margaret Allen Margaret Allen i(A35479 works by) (a.k.a. Margaret Ellen Allen)
Born: Established: 1947 ;
Gender: Female
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1 Margaret Allen Review of Anne Black, Pendragon : The Life of George Isaacs, Colonial Wordsmith Margaret Allen , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Biography and History , no. 7 2023; (p. 249-252)
— Review of Pendragon : The Life of George Isaacs, Colonial Wordsmith Anne Black , 2020 single work biography
1 A 'Tigress' in the Paradise of Dissent : Kooroona Critiques the Foundational Colonial Story Margaret Allen , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Changing The Victorian Subject 2014; (p. 59-81)
1 Such Comrades : Fred and Katie Martin Margaret Allen , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Magnificent Obsessions : Honouring the Lives of Hazel Rowley 2013; (p. 68-81)
1 Observing Australia as 'Member of an Alien and Conquered Race' : Nineteenth Century Indian Travellers' Accounts Margaret Allen , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 560-570)
1 'The Chinaman Had No Fault Except That They Were Chinese': An Indian View of Australia in 1888 Margaret Allen , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia and India : Interconnections : Identity, Representation, Belonging 2006; (p. 202-217) Margaret Allen looks at the 1893 publication, Reminiscences, English and Australasian: Being an Account of a Visit to England, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Ceylon, in which N. L. Doss records the anti-Chinese sentiment prevalent in the Australian colonies at the time of his visit. 'Doss's account of his travels in the Australian colonies in 1888 reveals an Indian view of the White Australian project at the point of its inception. Doss participates in the racialised hierarchies of the contemporary empire, locating himself as an Aryan like the English and superior to the Chinese and to the Indigienous peoples. Nevertheless, his ambivalence towards the racialist politics of the Australian colonies emerges at a number of crucial points in his text.' (p.215)
1 Catherine Helen Spence Margaret Allen , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Margin , July/August no. 69 2006; (p. 10-14)
— Review of Ever Yours, C. H. Spence : Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910) Catherine Helen Spence , 2005 selected work autobiography diary correspondence
1 So Complete is 'the Exile of London's Poorest from Civilisation' : Catherine Martin Encounters London Margaret Allen , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: London Was Full of Rooms 2006; (p. 128-137)
1 Untitled Margaret Allen , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , October vol. 36 no. 126 2005; (p. 365-366)
— Review of Settler Romances and the Australian Girl Tanya Dalziell , 2004 multi chapter work criticism
1 'To Put on Record as Faithfully as Possible' : Catherine Martin Margaret Allen , 2005 single work biography
— Appears in: Uncommon Ground : White Women and Aboriginal History 2005; (p. 241-256)

'...The Incredible Journey, published in 1923, presented a positive view of Indigenous motherhood and raised the issue of stolen children at a time when white public opinion had little interest in or sympathy for these issues... (Source: Allen, Margaret. 'To Put on Record, as Faithfully as Possible': Catherine Martin. New ed. In: Cole, Anna (Editor); Haskins, Victoria (Editor); Paisley, Fiona (Editor). Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History. New ed. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005:241)
1 Catherine Martin, The Moated Grange, Tennyson and Alick's Diaries Margaret Allen , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Regenerative Spirit : Volume 2 : (Un)settling, (Dis)locations, (Post-)colonial, (Re)presentations - Australian Post-Colonial Reflections 2004; (p. 179-191) The author notes that The Moated Grange appears to be in part a writing out of Martin's grief on the death of her loved younger brother, Alick, and sees striking parallels and intertwinings with Tennyson's poem 'In Memoriam', as well as with Alick's diaries which Martin treasured and re-read over the years.
1 She Seems to Have Composed Her Own Life : Thinking about Catherine Martin Margaret Allen , 2004 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , March vol. 19 no. 43 2004; (p. 29-42) Living History: Essays on History as Biography 2005; (p. 93-111)
1 Homely Stories and the Ideological Work of 'Terra Nullius' Margaret Allen , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 79 2003; (p. 105-115, notes 234-236) 'This paper explores the work of Matilda Evans, a prolific writer of domestic novels, and argues for her books' highly political status as works that were engaged in narrating the "nation" in nineteenth-century South Australia and creating a foundational narrative for the young settler community. The body of literature Evans produced represents a homely, familiar South Australian landscape and its ideal colonists. In these texts, Indigenous peoples are almost totally absent. Within Evans's texts, belonging is evaluated according to the criteria of middle-class domesticity. By these benchmarks, the presence of Idigenous people in South Australia is contested and their rights of belonging are denied. Evans's words, far from being trivial, are seen as performing the ideological work of "Terra Nullius".' (105)
1 1 y separately published work icon Catherine Martin's Library : With a List of the Books Margaret Allen , Canberra : Mulini Press , 2002 Z1064111 2002 single work bibliography
1 Biographical Background Margaret Allen , 2002 single work biography
— Appears in: An Australian Girl 2002; (p. 639-655)
1 The Brothers up North and the Sisters Down South : The Mackay Family and the Frontier Margaret Allen , 2001 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 27 no. 2 2001; (p. 7-31) Discusses the Mackay family (of which Catherine Martin was a member) and Aboriginal dispossession by white European settlers.
1 The Author's Daughter, The Professor's Wife - Harriet Miller Davidson Margaret Allen , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia , no. 27 1999; (p. 103-124)
1 Breaking the Law : Introduction Margaret Allen , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Breaking the Law 1997; (p. [i-ii])
1 y separately published work icon What Katie Might Have Learnt in Mount Gambier or Some Early Influences on C.E.M. Martin Margaret Allen , Barcelona : Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya , 1996 Z283540 1996 single work criticism biography In describing the ten years Catherine Martin spent in Mount Gambier, SA, and the influence this had on her writings, Margaret Allen particularly notes the strength of the Scottish and the German communities in the area, and relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people.
1 Cultural Housekeepers Margaret Allen , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , March vol. 7 no. 1 1995; (p. 23-24)
— Review of Our Own Matilda : Matilda Jane Evans 1827-1886 : Pioneer Woman and Novelist Barbara Wall , 1994 single work criticism biography
1 Reading Catherine Martin's 'An Australian Girl' Margaret Allen , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southwords : Essays on South Australian Writing 1995; (p. 46-61)

A true 'child of her age', conversant with contemporary ideas, and the development of Australian nationalism, Catherine Martin nevertheless drew on other and older sources, notably the literature of German romanticism and the works of George Eliot.
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