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- Title
Making Tasmania Home.
- Authors
Grimshaw, Patricia; Standish, Ann
- Abstract
The authors focuses on the work of Louisa Meredith, particularly her book "My Home in Tasmania, During a Residence of Nine Years." The authors examine how Meredith wrote about Tasmania as a potential location for recreating a feeling and impression of England in the British colonies, asserting that Meredith's work helped create the role of the white woman as a domesticating and colonizing force in Tasmania. The authors discuss such topics as travel writing as a masculine tool of colonization, the inclusion of domestic and personal matters in "My Home in Tasmania," and Meredith's defense of white settlers and colonization in her text.
- Subjects
TASMANIA; MY Home in Tasmania, During a Residence of Nine Years (Book); MEREDITH, Charles, Mrs., 1812-1895; COLONIZATION; COLONIES in literature; WHITE women in literature; FRONTIER &; pioneer life in literature; TRAVEL writing
- Publication
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2007, Vol 28, Issue 1/2, p1
- ISSN
0160-9009
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/fro.2007.0025