This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Philip and Sydney, 1839Jane 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. |
Contents
Behold Another Sheba Comes | 1 |
Melbourne 15 april 1839 | 25 |
Melbourne to the Goulburn river 611 April 1839 | 35 |
Goulburn River to the Murray River 12 20 April 1839 | 47 |
Murray River to the Murrumbidgee River 20 27 April 1839 | 67 |
Murrumbidgee River to Yass 28 April 3 May 1839 | 81 |
Yass to Goulburn 36 May 1839 | 95 |
Goulburn to the Illawarra 7 17 May 1839 | 103 |
Sydney 4 13 June 1839 | 145 |
Excursion to the Hawkesbury 14 29 June 1839 | 155 |
Sydney Again 30 June 16 July 1839 | 175 |
Voyage Home | 197 |
Notes | 209 |
Select Bibliography Primary Sources | 255 |
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Sydney 18 27 May 1839 | 109 |
Excursion to the Hunter River and Port Stephens 27 May 4 June 1839 | 127 |
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This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Philip and Sydney ... Jane Franklin No preview available - 2002 |
This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Philip and Sydney ... Jane Franklin No preview available - 2002 |
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