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Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 The Aboriginal Mother and Other Poems
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* Contents derived from the Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,:Mulini Press , 1981 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Biographical Note, Elizabeth Webby , single work biography (p. 1-2)
The Aboriginal Mother (from Myall's Creek) The Aboriginal Motheri"Oh! hush thee - hush my baby,", Eliza Hamilton Dunlop , single work poetry (p. 3-4)
The Aboriginal Fatheri"The shadow on thy brow my child", Eliza Hamilton Dunlop , single work lyric/song (p. 5)
Note: At head of poem: 'A transliteration of the Maneroo dirge'
The Eagle Chiefi"Hark to the sound! along the green hill side,", Eliza Hamilton Dunlop , Isaac Nathan (composer), single work lyric/song (p. 6)
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"Our home is the gibber-gunyah," Native Poetryi"Nung-Ngnun", Wullati , Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (translator), single work poetry (p. 7-8)
Pialla Wollombi "Our home is the gibher-gunyah," Native Poetryi"Nung-Ngnun", Wullati , Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (translator), single work poetry (p. 9)
Rosetta Nathan's Dirgei"Way for my grief - give way -", Eliza Hamilton Dunlop , single work poetry (p. 10)
Songs of an Exile : Go Dia Leat Slan (Irish Song)i"The fragrant and west-wind sighs", Eliza Hamilton Dunlop , single work poetry (p. 11)
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Works about this Work

Eliza Hamilton Dunlop's 'The Aboriginal Mother' : Romanticism, Anti Slavery and Imperial Feminism in the Nineteenth Century Katrina Hansord , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-12) 'This paper positions the work of colonial poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop amongst international Romantic poetry of the period, and argues that Dunlop's poetry reflects a transposition of Romantic women's poetry to Australia. Dunlop's poetry, such as 'The Aboriginal Mother', demonstrates the relationship of Romantic women's poetry to early feminism and Social Reform. As with the work of Felicia Hemans, Dunlop was interested in the role of women, and the 'domestic' as they related to broader national and political concerns. Dunlop seems to have been consciously applying the tropes, such as that of the mother, of anti slavery poetry found within American, British, and international poetic traditions to the Australian aboriginal context. Themes of indigenous motherhood, and also of Sati or widow burning in India, and human rights had been favored by early women's rights campaigners in Britain from the 1820s, focusing on abolition of slavery through the identification of white women with the Negro mother. Dunlop's comparative sympathy for the situation of aboriginals in Australia has been given critical attention as the aspect which makes her work valuable. However, in this essay I hope to outline how Dunlop's poetry fits in to the international context of the engagement of Romantic women poets with Western Imperialist models and colonial Others.' (Author's abstract)
Poetry of the Aborigines 1995 single work column
— Appears in: Margin , July-August no. 36 1995; (p. 27)
Eliza Hamilton Dunlop's 'The Aboriginal Mother' : Romanticism, Anti Slavery and Imperial Feminism in the Nineteenth Century Katrina Hansord , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-12) 'This paper positions the work of colonial poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop amongst international Romantic poetry of the period, and argues that Dunlop's poetry reflects a transposition of Romantic women's poetry to Australia. Dunlop's poetry, such as 'The Aboriginal Mother', demonstrates the relationship of Romantic women's poetry to early feminism and Social Reform. As with the work of Felicia Hemans, Dunlop was interested in the role of women, and the 'domestic' as they related to broader national and political concerns. Dunlop seems to have been consciously applying the tropes, such as that of the mother, of anti slavery poetry found within American, British, and international poetic traditions to the Australian aboriginal context. Themes of indigenous motherhood, and also of Sati or widow burning in India, and human rights had been favored by early women's rights campaigners in Britain from the 1820s, focusing on abolition of slavery through the identification of white women with the Negro mother. Dunlop's comparative sympathy for the situation of aboriginals in Australia has been given critical attention as the aspect which makes her work valuable. However, in this essay I hope to outline how Dunlop's poetry fits in to the international context of the engagement of Romantic women poets with Western Imperialist models and colonial Others.' (Author's abstract)
Poetry of the Aborigines 1995 single work column
— Appears in: Margin , July-August no. 36 1995; (p. 27)
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