Women

Books

ALEXANDER, Alison. Obliged To Submit: wives and mistresses of colonial governors. Hobart: Montpelier Press, 1999.

BASSETT, Marnie. The Governor's Lady: Mrs. Philip Gidley King: an Australian historical narrative. London: Oxford University Press, 1956 [2nd ed].

BASSETT, Marnie. Realms and Islands: the world voyage of Rose de Freycinet in the Corvette 'Uranie' 1817-1820. From her journal and letters and the reports of Louis de Saulces de Freycinet Captaine de Corvette. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.

DAMOUSI, Joy. Depraved and Disorderly: female convicts, sexuality and gender in colonial Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

DANIELS, Kay. Convict Women. St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1998.

For Richer, For Poorer: early colonial marriages. (ed.) Penny Russell. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994.

FORSYTH, Holly Kerr. Remembered Gardens: eight women & their visions of an Australian landscape Carlton, Vic.: The Miegunyah Press, 2006
[see: 'Elizabeth Macarthur 1766-1850' pp.18-37].

Gender Relations in Australia: domination and negotiation. (eds.) Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans. Sydney : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.

HENEY, Helen. Australia's Founding Mothers. Melbourne: Nelson, 1978.

IRVINE, Nance. Mary Reibey, Molly Incognita: a biography of Mary Reibey 1777 to 1855, and her world. North Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1982.

KERR, Joan and FALKUS, Hugh. From Sydney Cove to Duntroon. Richmond, Vic.: Hutchinson, 1982.

KING, Hazel. Elizabeth Macarthur and Her World. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1980.

JORDAN, Caroline. Picturesque Pursuits: colonial women artists & the amateur tradition. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005.

Life Lines: Australian women's letters and diaries, 1788-1840. (eds.) Patricia Clarke and Dale Spender. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992.

Limits of Location: creating a colony. (eds.) Gretchen Poiner and Sybil Jack. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2007.
[see: Chapter 3. "Belonging: the meaning of place for women in the early settlement of New South Wales." pp.47-64

LISTON, Carol. Sarah Wentworth, Mistress of Vaucluse House. Sydney: Historic Houses Trust, 1988.

PERROTT, Monica. A Tolerable Good Success: economic opportunities for women in New South Wales 1788-1830. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1983.

Lives Obscurely Great: historical essays on women of New South Wales. (eds.) Patricia Thompson and Susan Yorke. Sydney: The Society of Women Writers (Australia), 1980.

ROBINSON, Portia. The Women of Botany Bay: a reinterpretation of the role of women in the origins of Australian society. Sydney: Macquarie Library, 1988

TARDIF, Philip. Notorious Strumpets & Dangerous Girls: convict women in Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1829. North Ryde: Angus & Robertson, 1990.

BARKER-BENFIELD, G. J. The Culture of Sensibility: sex and society in eighteenth-century Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Brilliant Women: Eighteenth-Century Bluestockings. Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2008.

CHERNOCK, Arianne. Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.

COLLINS, Irene. Jane Austen and the Clergy. London: Hambledon Press, 1994.

DAVIDOFF, Lenore and HALL, Catherine. Family Fortunes: men and women of the English middle class, 1780-1850. London: Routledge, 2002 [rev. ed.].

FRASER, Flora. Princesses: the six daughters of George III. New York: Knopf, 2005.

A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: the journals and letters of Agnes Porter. (ed.) Joanna Martin. London: Hambledon Press, 1998.

HODGE, Jane Aiken. Passion & Principle: the loves and lives of Regency women. London: John Murray, c1996.

Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: debates, desires and delectable goods. (eds.) Mazine Berg and Elizabeth Eger. New York: Palgrave, 2003.

Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: two women's travel narratives of the 1790s. (ed.) Deirdre Coleman. Washington, D.C.: Leicester University Press, 1998.

MARSHALL, Rosalind K. Virgins and Viragos: a history of women in Scotland from 1080 to 1980. London: Collins, 1983.

MIDGLEY, Clare. Feminism and Empire: women activists in imperial Britain, 1790-1865.London: Routledge, 2007.

MELLOR, Anne K. Mothers of the Nation: women's political writing in England, 1780-1830. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2000.

MYERS, Sylvia Harkstart. The Bluestocking Circle: women, friendship, and the life of the mind in eighteenth-century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

POINTON, Marcia. Strategies for Showing: women, possession, and representation in English visual culture, 1665-1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

STARK, Suzanne J. Female Tars: women aboard ship in the age of sail. London: Pimlico, 1998.

STONE, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977.

VENNING, Annabel. Following the Drum: the lives of army wives and daughters past and present. London: Headline Review, 2006.

VICKERY, Amanda. The Gentleman's Daughter: women's lives in Georgian England. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, c1998.

Women's History: Britain, 1700-1850: an introduction. (eds.) Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus. London: Routledge, 2005.

Women in the Eighteenth Century: constructions of femininity. (ed.) Vivien Jones. London: Routledge, 1990.

Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830. (eds.) Elizabeth Eger et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Journal Articles and Essays

BREMER, Anette. "Doubled Document: representing race in Elizabeth Macarthur's letter of March 1791." New Literatures Review. No. 40, 2003 Winter pp.57-72.

BREMER, Anette. "Plagiarism and Presentation of Self in Elizabeth Spurrell's Journal of her Voyage to New South Wales 1815-1816." Voicing Dissent: Journal of Australian Studies. No. 76. [2003] 77-85.

CRAIG, Russell and JOHNS, Leanne. "Female Customers of the Bank of New South Wales, 1817-1820." Royal Australian Historical Society: Journal. Vol. 88 Part 2 pp.162-183.

FLETCHER, Brian. "Elizabeth Darling: Colonial Benefactress and Governor's Lady." Royal Australian Historical Society: Journal. Vol. 67 March 1982 Part 4 pp.297-327.

JOHNS, Leanne. "The First Female Shareholders of the Bank of New South Wales: Examination of Shareholdings in Australia's First Bank, 1817-1824." Accounting, Business & Financial History Vol. 16 No. 2, July 2006, pp.293-314.

KYLE, Noeline J. "'Delicate Health... Interesting Condition': Eliza Darling, Pregnancy and Philanthropy in Early New South Wales." History of Education. [Great Britain] Vol. 24 (1) 1995 pp.25-43.

WINDSCHUTTLE, Elizabeth. "Evangelicalism and Philanthropy: the public role of ruling class women in colonial Australia 1788-1850." in Women and Labour Conference Papers May 1978 [Section: Popular Culture] pp.52-62.

WINDSCHUTTLE, Elizabeth. "Feeding the Poor and Sapping Their Strength" in Women, Class and History 1788-1850: Feminist Perspectives on Australia 1788-1978. (ed.) Elizabeth Windschuttle. Melbourne: Fontana, 1980 pp.53-80.

GLOVER, Katherine. “‘Polite London Chilldren’: educating the daughters of the Scottish elite in mid-eighteenth-century London.” in Scots in London in the Eighteenth Century. (ed.) Stana Nenadic. Lewisburg, New Jersey: Bucknell University Press, 2010 pp.253-271.

LENEMAN, Leah. "Seduction in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland." The Scottish Historical Review. Vol. LXXVIII, 1 No. 205: April 1999 pp.39-59.

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