Diaries & journals
Articles
- Primary Sources for the Study of the Vocabulary of Nineteenth Century Australian English
Ramson examines and assesses a range of colonial non-fiction sources for their use and representation of Australian English vocabulary.
1 December 1964 - Literary Composition on Board a Convict Ship : The ‘Pestonjee Bomanjee Journal’
The exotically named convict ship the 'Pestonjee Bomanjee' sailed from Plymouth on the 18 April 1852, with 291 transportees, 30 pensioners as guards 24 women…
1 October 1969 - Reading Kate Llewellyn’s Garden(Books)
Kate Llewellyn does not like her work referred to as 'garden writing' or herselfas a 'garden writer', yet much of her prose (and poetry) takes…
1 October 2006 - Henry Handel Richardson Fifty Years On
Having been asked to speak at a Henry Handel Richardson seminar, on the particular question of developments in the study of her life and work…
1 May 1998 - Life-Lines in Stormy Seas: Some Recent Collections of Women’s Diaries and Letters
In the history of women's writing in Australia, 1992 may well earn the title of the year of the letters, given the coincidental publication of…
1 May 1993 - Exploring Aesthetics: The Picturesque Appropriation of Land in Journals of Australian Exploration
The journals of explorers are an important element in the cultural representation of the geography of Australia and of the nature of its inhabitants. But…
1 October 1992