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'Did travel writers who observed the white European population in Western Australia in the latter half of the nineteenth century feel that they 'stood [a]mong them but not of them', and to what extent were their ideas preconceived? This article examines how contemporary thought and ideology influenced travellers' attitudes towards white Western Australian society between 1850 and 1914. In witting about the colonists, travellers' observations shaped, and were shaped by, the assumptions, ambitions, and ideologies of the institutions they represented, and those already existing in Western Australian society.' (p. 175)
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Epigraph:
... in the crowd
They could not deem me one of such; I stood
Among them, but not of them; in a shroud
Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could,
Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.
-Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), 1053-57
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'My Head Cook...Appeared in an Evening Dress of Black Net and Silver' : (Re)Viewing Colonial Western Australians through Travellers' Imaginings
Melbourne Historical Journal
Melbourne Historical Journal
Subjects:
- Mateship and Egalitarianism: The Failure of Upper Middle-Class Nerve 1982 single work criticism
- Intruders in the Bush : The Australian Quest for Identity 1982 anthology criticism
- The Australian Legend 1958 multi chapter work criticism
- The Pioneer Legend 1982 single work criticism
- A Colonial Tramp : Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Guinea 1891 single work autobiography
- My Dear Emma : A Full and Detailed Account of the Journey of Robert Emeric Tyler and His Son, to Western Australia and Their Return to England. August 1st 1895 to March 7th 1896 2003 single work diary
- Round the Compass in Australia 1892 single work prose
- Remembered with Affection : A New Edition of Lady Broome's Letters to Guy 1963 single work correspondence
- An Australian Parsonage : Or, the Settler and the Savage in Western Australia 1872 single work autobiography prose
- Western Australia,
- 1850-1914
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