The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 3Geoffrey Bolton Late nineteenth-century Australia claimed one of the world's highest standards of living and was seen as one of the most successful examples of the transplantation of British culture. Yet beneath the surface prosperity, there lay a great deal of uncertainty and conflict, including clashes among churches, the crash of the 1890s, pressure for federation, and the challenging of traditional views of education, women's roles, and the family. This volume takes a skeptical look at many of the common perceptions of Australia in the Victorian era, concentrating on human values rather than on the rhetoric of national achievement. |
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Page 179
... Marcus Clarke found ' evidence of wealth without taste ' . The drawing - room furniture , most expensive , and therefore most excellent , was green picked out with crimson . The curtains were yellow damask ( Heaven only knows how much a ...
... Marcus Clarke found ' evidence of wealth without taste ' . The drawing - room furniture , most expensive , and therefore most excellent , was green picked out with crimson . The curtains were yellow damask ( Heaven only knows how much a ...
Page 216
... Marcus Clarke con- tributed articles , sketches and short stories to papers and periodicals all over eastern Australia before he acquired the Australian Monthly Magazine in 1867. This he renamed the Colonial Monthly and although it ...
... Marcus Clarke con- tributed articles , sketches and short stories to papers and periodicals all over eastern Australia before he acquired the Australian Monthly Magazine in 1867. This he renamed the Colonial Monthly and although it ...
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... Marcus Clarke , Henry Kingsley , and Rolf Boldre- wood wrote consciously of their experience in Australia , seeking its origins in the now receding past . For His Natural Life Marcus Clarke went to Tasmania to research the convict ...
... Marcus Clarke , Henry Kingsley , and Rolf Boldre- wood wrote consciously of their experience in Australia , seeking its origins in the now receding past . For His Natural Life Marcus Clarke went to Tasmania to research the convict ...
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