Georgiana Molloy The Mind That Shines
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Georgiana Molloy The Mind That Shines
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Author : Bernice Barry
language : en
Publisher: Picador Australia
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Georgiana Molloy The Mind That Shines written by Bernice Barry and has been published by Picador Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This meticulously researched biography tells the extraordinary story of Georgiana Molloy, one of Australia's first internationally successful female botanists. From the refined beauty of 19th century England and Scotland, to the dramatic landscape of the West Australian coast, Georgiana Molloy: The Mind That Shines gives new insight into the life of this pioneering botanist. Following a swift marriage, Georgiana and Captain John Molloy, a handsome hero with a mysterious past, emigrated to Australia among the first group of European settlers to the remote southwest. Here, despite personal tragedy, Georgiana's passion for flora was ignited. Entirely self-taught, she gathered specimens of indigenous flora from Augusta and Busselton that are now held in some of the world's leading herbarium collections. Using Georgiana's own writings and notes, accompanied by full-colour pictures of some of the stunning plants mentioned throughout, Bernice Barry reveals a resilient, independent woman of strong values, whose appreciation and wonder of the landscape around her became her salvation, and her legacy.
A Lady S Pen
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Author : Bernice Barry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-04
A Lady S Pen written by Bernice Barry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04 with categories.
In December 1836, Georgiana Molloy received an unexpected letter from a stranger in London. Captain James Mangles asked her to collect specimens and seeds of the native plants of Taalinup, where she was living with her family, on Wadandi Pibelmen country. During the last six years of her life, they exchanged letters and she sent him three exquisite collections from Taalinup and Undalup (Augusta and Busselton). They were the highest quality specimens British botanists had ever received from Western Australia. She was self-taught but her dried wildflower specimens are still studied in world herbariums. She died in 1843 aged thirty-seven, having received no payment or formal recognition for her scientific achievements.'A Lady's Pen' provides the first complete, unedited transcription of the long extracts Mangles kept from her letters. Today, they're the only significant, first-hand source of information about her botanical work. Chapters on the writing, the collecting and the research help to peel back the historical filters that today's readers encounter, and an account of Mangles' own intriguing life chimes to the voice that's been missing from their long-distance conversation. But the plants of WA's southwest are the main characters here. Their incredible journeys across oceans and through time are supplemented by the first comprehensive list of the species Georgiana Molloy collected.
Transcultural Ecocriticism
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Author : Stuart Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-01-28
Transcultural Ecocriticism written by Stuart Cooke and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bringing together decolonial, Romantic and global literature perspectives, Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative new directions for the field of environmental literary studies. By examining these literatures across a range of geographical locations and historical periods – from Romantic period travel writing to Chinese science fiction and Aboriginal Australian poetry – the book makes a compelling case for the need for ecocriticism to competently translate between Indigenous and non-Indigenous, planetary and local, and contemporary and pre-modern perspectives. Leading scholars from Australasia and North America explore links between Indigenous knowledges, Romanticism, globalisation, avant-garde poetics and critical theory in order to chart tensions as well as affinities between these discourses in a variety of genres of environmental representation, including science fiction, poetry, colonial natural history and oral narrative.
Claiming Space For Australian Women S Writing
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Author : Devaleena Das
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-06-29
Claiming Space For Australian Women S Writing written by Devaleena Das and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume explores the subterfuges, strategies, and choices that Australian women writers have navigated in order to challenge patriarchal stereotypes and assert themselves as writers of substance. Contextualized within the pioneering efforts of white, Aboriginal, and immigrant Australian women in initiating an alternative literary tradition, the text captures a wide range of multiracial Australian women authors’ insightful reflections on crucial issues such as war and silent mourning, emergence of a Australian national heroine, racial purity and Aboriginal motherhood, communism and activism, feminist rivalry, sexual transgressions, autobiography and art of letter writing, city space and female subjectivity, lesbianism, gender implications of spatial categories, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation and female body politics. Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing tracks Australian women authors’ varied journeys across cultural, political and racial borders in the canter of contemporary political discourse.
Life Writing In The Anthropocene
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Author : Jessica White
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-27
Life Writing In The Anthropocene written by Jessica White and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Life Writing in the Anthropocene is a collection of timely and original approaches to the question of what constitutes a life, how that life is narrated, and what lives matter in autobiography studies in the Anthropocene. This era is characterised by the geoengineering impact of humans, which is shaping the planet’s biophysical systems through the combustion of fossil fuels, production of carbon, unprecedented population growth, and mass extinction. These developments threaten the rights of humans and other-than-humans to just and sustainable lives. In exploring ways of representing life in the Anthropocene, this work articulates innovative literary forms such as ecobiography (the representation of a human subject's entwinement with their environment), phytography (writing the lives of plants), and ethological poetics (the study of nonhuman poetic forms), providing scholars and writers with innovative tools to think and write about our strange new world. In particular, its recognition on plant life reminds us of how human lives are entwined with vegetal lives. The creative and critical essays in this book, shaped by a number of Antipodean authors, bear witness to a multitude of lives and deaths. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
Ecocritical Concerns And The Australian Continent
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Author : Beate Neumeier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-08
Ecocritical Concerns And The Australian Continent written by Beate Neumeier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-08 with categories.
Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout this volume emerges in the resonances between essays exploring recurring concerns ranging from biodiversity and preservation policies to the devastating effects of the mining industries, to present concerns and futuristic visions of the effects of climate change. Of central concern in all of these contexts is the impact of settler colonialism and an increasing turn to indigenous knowledge systems. A number of chapters engage with questions of ecological imperialism in relation to specific sociohistorical moments and effects, probing early colonial encounters between settlers and indigenous people, or rereading specific forms of colonial literature. Other essays take issue with past and present constructions of indigeneity in different contexts, as well as with indigenous resistance against such ascriptions, while the importance of an understanding of indigenous notions of "care for country" is taken up from a variety of different disciplinary angles in terms of interconnectedness, anchoredness, living country, and living heritage.
Georgiana
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Author : Libby Hathorn
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-05-13
Georgiana written by Libby Hathorn and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-13 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A young woman travels to a new world, and discovers who she really is. In October 1829, Georgiana Molloy embarked on a gruelling five-month sea journey from her home in England, hopeful of a prosperous future in the new settlement in Western Australia. But the land she finds is harsh and unyielding, food is often short, and the struggle of colonial life spells dreadful loneliness. Yet despite the hardships, she begins to see the unique beauty of her adopted country, and becomes fascinated with its amazing plant life, so different from anything she has known in England. Based on the real life of Georgiana Molloy, pioneer botanist, this novel by acclaimed author Libby Hathorn takes us into the fascinating work of a young woman whose passion for flowers transformed her, and the world. 'Libby Hathorn's historical novel is a wonderfully accessible introduction to the life of Georgiana Molloy, the Woman of Flowers, and extraordinary and unique figure in early Australia's history. A beaut book!' - Dr Kevin Thiele, Curator, Western Australian Herbarium 'This engaging novel about a modest but remarkable woman really gets to the heart of early colonial life in Australia. It's both a great story and an enthralling piece of social history.' - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Celebrating 25 years of Libby Hathorn, acclaimed author of the Australian young adult classic THUNDERWITH.
Collecting Ladies
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Author : Penny Olsen
language : en
Publisher: National Library Australia
Release Date : 2013
Collecting Ladies written by Penny Olsen and has been published by National Library Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Botanical artists categories.
Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller, the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for 'lady' plant collectors. This was at a time when women typically had little recourse to science, or contact with men outside their circle of friends, making Mueller's network of ladies quite extraordinary. Collecting Ladies profiles 14 of Mueller's coterie of women collectors. Included are Fanny Charsley, Louisa Atkinson, Annie Walker and Ellis Rowan for whom Mueller made time to assist in pursuit of their own passions. He identified the plants they painted and provided letters of introduction to publishers and scientists. Together, these ladies produced some of the most beautiful books and botanical art to come out of Australia in the nineteenth century, covering all the Australian colonies.
Transformations
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Author : Vanessa Finney
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth
Release Date : 2018
Transformations written by Vanessa Finney and has been published by NewSouth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The fascinating story of the Scott sisters, who transformed nature into art in their extraordinary paintings of butterflies and moths, is told here for the first time.With their collecting boxes, notebooks, and paintbrushes, Harriet and Helena Scott entered the masculine worlds of science and art and became two of nineteenth-century Australia's most prominent natural history painters. Transformations tells the complete story of the Scott sisters for the first time--their early lives in colonial Sydney, their training as naturalists and artists on the isolated Ash Island, and their professional triumphs. This is a rare pictorial record of two talented and determined women who transformed nature into art in their extraordinary paintings.
Curious Minds
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Author : Peter Macinnis
language : en
Publisher: National Library Australia
Release Date : 2012
Curious Minds written by Peter Macinnis and has been published by National Library Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Natural history categories.
Curious Minds: The Discoveries of Australian Naturalists looks at the long line of naturalists who have traversed Australia in search of new plants and animals. Identifying and classifying the unfamiliar plants and animals was their biggest challenge - the early ones were frequently wrong but later naturalists were able to build on and learn from previous mistakes. In time, a new breed of homegrown naturalists emerged. This succession of curious minds would help to foster pride in a developing nation, as well an interest in the preservation of natural history. Curious Minds brings to life the stories of the naturalists and settlers who made the unfamiliar familiar and who contributed to developments in natural science. Among the names are Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Amalie Dietrich, Ludwig Leichhardt, Ferdinand von Mueller, Ellis Rowan, John Lewin and John and Elizabeth Gould. Beautifully illustrated with images from the collection of the National Library of Australia, the publication is a loving tribute to the courageous and inquisitive men and women who led by example.