Volume 23 No. 2 — 1 October 2007

‘I shall tell just such stories as I please’ : Mary Fortune and the Australian Journal

Megan Brown

Abstract

Discusses Mary Fortune's contributions to the Australian Journal, 'a trailblazer for the production of colonial literature'. Focusing on Fortune's essays 'The Tressless Bride' (6 June 1868) and 'The Last Scene' (November 1970), Brown shows how Fortune's work exemplifies the Journal's 'breadth of views on gender'.

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Published 1 October 2007 in Volume 23 No. 2. Subjects: Gender - Literary portrayal, Readers, Reading, Mary Fortune, 19th Century Women Writers.

Cite as: Brown, Megan. ‘‘I shall tell just such stories as I please’ : Mary Fortune and the Australian Journal.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2007, doi: 10.20314/als.387a292022.

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