Gender, Genera, Genre and Geography: Colonial Women's Writing and the Uses of Botany

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  • Susan K. Martin The University of Melbourne

Keywords:

Botany, colonial women, Georgiana Molloy, Louisa Atkinson, Amalie Dietrich, , Catherine Parr Traill

Abstract

The paper maps some of the minute distributions and redistributions of power and autonomy in nineteenth century middle-class women in botany, with reference to Georgiana Molloy, Louisa Atkinson, Amalie Dietrich, Catherine Parr Traill and Ferdinand von Mueller.

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2013-02-16

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1995: Crossing Lines: Formations of Australian Culture

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