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y separately published work icon Bush Friends in Tasmania : Native Flowers, Fruits and Insects, Drawn from Nature, with Prose Descriptions and Illustrations in Verse selected work   poetry   prose   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1891... 1891 Bush Friends in Tasmania : Native Flowers, Fruits and Insects, Drawn from Nature, with Prose Descriptions and Illustrations in Verse
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  • Includes stanzas illustrative and descriptive of Australian wild flowers. (Miller)
  • Epigraph: I love Flowers as forming one of the sweetest lines in the God-written poetry of the Universe, - as one of the blessings accessible to all nations, climes and and classes. Romance of Nature. - L.A.M.
  • Users are warned that this work contains terminology that reflects attitudes or language used at the time of publication that are considered inappropriate today.

  • Meredith recounts an incident whereby Aboriginal people are accused of murdering a settler family. Her description of the Palawa people of Tasmania and distortion of facts is offensive and should be treated with caution. The Palawa people are the descendants of Tasmanian Aboriginal people. The Palawa are the descendants of the Aborigines taken to the islands in Bass Strait after becoming the wives of European sealers in 1835. The other group known as Lia Pootah are the descendants of those who remained on the mainland as servants and those who managed to remain in small tribal groups.

    Source: McFarlane, I. Beyond Awakening: The Aboriginal tribes of North West Tasmania. Fullers Bookshop, 2008.

    Flood, J. The Original Australian of Aboriginal People. Allen and Unwin, 2006.

  • For other works listed in AustLit about the Palawa people follow the 'Palawa Tasmanian' link in the list of General subjects above.

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y separately published work icon Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania : Native Flowers, Berries, and Insects, Drawn From Life, Illustrated in Verse, and Briefly Described Louisa Anne Meredith , Louisa Anne Meredith (illustrator), (Manuscript version)x401581 Z255549 1860 selected work poetry prose children's Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania describes the native Tasmanian flora, fauna through poetry and descriptions accompanying illustrated plates. The author also writes about their life in rural Tasmania and wishes to describe to her English friends the flora and fauna encountered in this area.
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Collecting and Curating an Antipodean Anthology : The Poesy of Louisa Anne Meredith Elizabeth Mansergh , 2024 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , September no. 114 2024;

'The long-winded title page of Louisa Anne Meredith’s last volume, Bush Friends in Tasmania (1891), attests to her eclectic experience as a prose-writer, poet, botanist and illustrator.' (Introduction)
Bush Friends in Tasmania and Loved and Lost Kerry Heckenberg , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Found in Fryer : Stories from the Fryer Library Collection 2010; (p. 60-61)
Bush Friends in Tasmania and Loved and Lost Kerry Heckenberg , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Found in Fryer : Stories from the Fryer Library Collection 2010; (p. 60-61)
Collecting and Curating an Antipodean Anthology : The Poesy of Louisa Anne Meredith Elizabeth Mansergh , 2024 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , September no. 114 2024;

'The long-winded title page of Louisa Anne Meredith’s last volume, Bush Friends in Tasmania (1891), attests to her eclectic experience as a prose-writer, poet, botanist and illustrator.' (Introduction)
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