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This
Errant Lady: Jane Franklin’s Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney,
1839
By Penny
Russell
Jane Franklin’s
visit to Sydney in 1839 took place at a time when she was just emerging
on to the historical stage, and attracting more public interest than any
governor’s wife in Australia before or since. Had she acquired no greater
fame, her diary of the visit might not have survived. Yet the diary of
her travels overland, now held in the Collection of the National Library
of Australia, is a dazzling display of the paradoxes of nineteenth-century
femininity by a woman who lived them—a sustained testament to the enormous
contradiction of being, at that time, both a lady and a clever, energetic
woman.
ISBN 0 642
10749 1
pb,
150 x 230 mm

Last
updated
19 March, 2003
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