The Resource Great expectations : emigrant governesses in colonial Australia, Patricia Clarke
Great expectations : emigrant governesses in colonial Australia, Patricia Clarke
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The item Great expectations : emigrant governesses in colonial Australia, Patricia Clarke represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
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- Summary
- For educated middleclass women in nineteenthcentury Britain, options were limited. 'Great Expectations' is the story of a group of intrepid ladies who forged a different path as governesses to wild colonial boys and girls on the other side of the world. From 1861 to 1886, women participants in the Female Middle Class Emigration Society scheme made new lives in Australia, in cities and on remote stations, in wellestablished families or as teachers. Often fluent in multiple foreign languages, skilled artists and musicians, the women came with great expectations. Some gained employment with wellestablished families or found husbands; others battled extreme loneliness and wild colonial boys and girls. Others were great observers of the Australian character. According to Gertrude Gooch, 'All Australians ride like Arabs, love luxury and money. They live very much out of doors and eat great quantities of fruit'. The women 'are certainly very indolent and untidy', which explained their offspring: 'Australian children are just like the vegetation here for neither appear to submit to much control. Pineapples, peaches and the finest fruit grow in open air without care and the children are equally wild and impetuous'. 'Great Expectations' tells of the colonial experiences of a particular group of emigrant women, but it also tells a broader story, of emigration, education, class prejudice and the development of Australian society
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- eng
- Label
- Great expectations : emigrant governesses in colonial Australia
- Title
- Great expectations
- Title remainder
- emigrant governesses in colonial Australia
- Statement of responsibility
- Patricia Clarke
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- For educated middleclass women in nineteenthcentury Britain, options were limited. 'Great Expectations' is the story of a group of intrepid ladies who forged a different path as governesses to wild colonial boys and girls on the other side of the world. From 1861 to 1886, women participants in the Female Middle Class Emigration Society scheme made new lives in Australia, in cities and on remote stations, in wellestablished families or as teachers. Often fluent in multiple foreign languages, skilled artists and musicians, the women came with great expectations. Some gained employment with wellestablished families or found husbands; others battled extreme loneliness and wild colonial boys and girls. Others were great observers of the Australian character. According to Gertrude Gooch, 'All Australians ride like Arabs, love luxury and money. They live very much out of doors and eat great quantities of fruit'. The women 'are certainly very indolent and untidy', which explained their offspring: 'Australian children are just like the vegetation here for neither appear to submit to much control. Pineapples, peaches and the finest fruit grow in open air without care and the children are equally wild and impetuous'. 'Great Expectations' tells of the colonial experiences of a particular group of emigrant women, but it also tells a broader story, of emigration, education, class prejudice and the development of Australian society
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
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- 1926-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Clarke, Patricia
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Female Middle Class Emigration Society
- Governesses
- Women immigrants
- Australia
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Great expectations : emigrant governesses in colonial Australia, Patricia Clarke
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
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- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 247 pages
- Isbn
- 9780642279620
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), portraits
- Label
- Great expectations : emigrant governesses in colonial Australia, Patricia Clarke
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 247 pages
- Isbn
- 9780642279620
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), portraits
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