Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Victorian Domestic Fiction Down Under
- 1 Retracing Domestic Space: English National Identity in Harriet Martineau's Homes Abroad
- 2 ‘Hasten to the Land of Promise’: The Influence of Emigrant Letters on Dickens's Life and Literature
- 3 ‘Ever so Many Partings Welded Together’: Serial Settlement and Great Expectations
- 4 ‘The Heavens were on Fire’: Incendiarism and the Defence of the Settler Home
- 5 The ‘Australian Girl’ and the Domestic Ideal in Colonial Women's Fiction
- 6 Fugitive Homes: Multiple Migrations in Ethel Turner's Fiction
- 7 Devout Domesticity and Extreme Evangelicalism: The Unsettled Australian Domestic of Maud Jean Franc
- 8 ‘That's what Children are – Nought but Leg-Ropes’: Motherhood in Rosa Praed's Mrs Tregaskiss
- 9 The Antipodal House Beautiful: Louisa Alice Baker's Colonial Aesthetic
- 10 Antipodal Home Economics: International Debt and Settler Domesticity in Clara Cheeseman's A Rolling Stone
- 11 ‘What is in the Blood will Come Out’: Belonging, Expulsion and the New Zealand Settler Home in Jessie Weston's Ko Méri
- Notes
- Index
Notes
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Victorian Domestic Fiction Down Under
- 1 Retracing Domestic Space: English National Identity in Harriet Martineau's Homes Abroad
- 2 ‘Hasten to the Land of Promise’: The Influence of Emigrant Letters on Dickens's Life and Literature
- 3 ‘Ever so Many Partings Welded Together’: Serial Settlement and Great Expectations
- 4 ‘The Heavens were on Fire’: Incendiarism and the Defence of the Settler Home
- 5 The ‘Australian Girl’ and the Domestic Ideal in Colonial Women's Fiction
- 6 Fugitive Homes: Multiple Migrations in Ethel Turner's Fiction
- 7 Devout Domesticity and Extreme Evangelicalism: The Unsettled Australian Domestic of Maud Jean Franc
- 8 ‘That's what Children are – Nought but Leg-Ropes’: Motherhood in Rosa Praed's Mrs Tregaskiss
- 9 The Antipodal House Beautiful: Louisa Alice Baker's Colonial Aesthetic
- 10 Antipodal Home Economics: International Debt and Settler Domesticity in Clara Cheeseman's A Rolling Stone
- 11 ‘What is in the Blood will Come Out’: Belonging, Expulsion and the New Zealand Settler Home in Jessie Weston's Ko Méri
- Notes
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand , pp. 177 - 212Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014