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y separately published work icon The Diary of Milicent Courtenay, or, The Experiences of a Young Lady at Home and Abroad single work   novel   young adult   adventure  
Issue Details: First known date: 1873... 1873 The Diary of Milicent Courtenay, or, The Experiences of a Young Lady at Home and Abroad
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'Helen, Millicent, Mabel, Ranald, their guardian Mrs Markham, and an entourage of servants set off for Australia after the loss of their father and brother. Half-way through the novel they arrive at "Auburn" Station and later take up their own station, "Rosella". the observe a enormous variety of animal life [...] and cheerfully shoot lyre-birds and bell-birds as specimens. Ranald is lost in the bush (and found by a stranger who finally identifies himself as his father), they experience a bushfire, are saved from incineration by a long-lost brother, and have a startling encounter with bushrangers' (Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature, 248).

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  • Second half of the book tells of the heroine's voyage to NSW and her experiences in the new colony.

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      Link: 8516547Full text document AustLit Full Text
      Extent: 448p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1884
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      • With cover title: Millicent Courtenay's Experiences.
      • Digitised by AustLit, 2009, from the collection of the NLA.
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'Through a comparison of Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand texts published between 1840 and 1940, From Colonial to Modern develops a new history of colonial girlhoods revealing how girlhood in each of these emerging nations reflects a unique political, social, and cultural context.

'Print culture was central to the definition, and redefinition, of colonial girlhood during this period of rapid change. Models of girlhood are shared between settler colonies and contain many similar attitudes towards family, the natural world, education, employment, modernity, and race, yet, as the authors argue, these texts also reveal different attitudes that emerged out of distinct colonial experiences. Unlike the imperial model representing the British ideal, the transnational girl is an adaptation of British imperial femininity and holds, for example, a unique perception of Indigenous culture and imperialism. Drawing on fiction, girls’ magazines, and school magazine, the authors shine a light on neglected corners of the literary histories of these three nations and strengthen our knowledge of femininity in white settler colonies.'  (Publication summary)
y separately published work icon From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Children's Literature, 1840-1940 Michelle J. Smith , Kristine Moruzi , Clare Bradford , Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2018 15039944 2018 multi chapter work criticism

'Through a comparison of Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand texts published between 1840 and 1940, From Colonial to Modern develops a new history of colonial girlhoods revealing how girlhood in each of these emerging nations reflects a unique political, social, and cultural context.

'Print culture was central to the definition, and redefinition, of colonial girlhood during this period of rapid change. Models of girlhood are shared between settler colonies and contain many similar attitudes towards family, the natural world, education, employment, modernity, and race, yet, as the authors argue, these texts also reveal different attitudes that emerged out of distinct colonial experiences. Unlike the imperial model representing the British ideal, the transnational girl is an adaptation of British imperial femininity and holds, for example, a unique perception of Indigenous culture and imperialism. Drawing on fiction, girls’ magazines, and school magazine, the authors shine a light on neglected corners of the literary histories of these three nations and strengthen our knowledge of femininity in white settler colonies.'  (Publication summary)
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