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Sharkey argues that romance enabled Praed to present the colonial experience from a metropolitan point of view and intelligibly relate the circumstances of women in fronteir society to a European audience. This is achieved by employing a love-theory that declares, in Platonic terms, that for each person there is one who is their perfect match.
Discusses and compares drafts, revisions, and typescript fragments of Capricornia (particularly of Chapter Three) with regard to the imaginative vision of the novel.