Approximating the World: Women, 'Civilisation' amd Colonial Melbourne

Authors

  • Rowena Mohr Latrobe University

Keywords:

Ada Cambridge, colonial fiction, colonial city, Melbourne

Abstract

This article examines Ada Cambridge's novel The Three Miss Kings first serialized in 1883, in order to understand the way in which Cambridge approaches the problem of colonial 'civilisastion' and the importance she places upon the role of the colonial city in the reproduction of a hierarchical English social order.

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Published

2013-02-02

Issue

1999: Australian Writing and the City

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Approximating the World: Women, ’Civilisation’ amd Colonial Melbourne. (2013). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 31-37. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9565