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My hand will write what my heart dictates : the unsettled lives of women in nineteenth-century New Zealand as revealed to sisters, family and friends
- Title
- My hand will write what my heart dictates : the unsettled lives of women in nineteenth-century New Zealand as revealed to sisters, family and friends / edited by Frances Porter and Charlotte MacDonald, with Tui MacDonald.
- Publication
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 1996.
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- Description
- 518 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Put aside preconceptions of straitened Victorian ladies or robust colonial matrons. Here is an altogether more authentic picture, told in the words of the women themselves as taken from letters, journals, diaries and government records. From these rich, diverse (and largely unpublished) sources, Frances Porter and Charlotte Macdonald have built up a portrait of 'life as it happens' in nineteenth-century New Zealand.
- The women of this book are mainly Pakeha. They are domestic servants, governors' wives and farmers, married, single, widowed or deserted. They write about love, friendship, children, destitution, illness and grief. Maori women write about land, loss and love, about families and domestic events - in both Maori and English.
- Women whose ancestors had reached New Zealand centuries ago face the disruption of later arrivals; the settler women of colonial New Zealand cope with displacement in a new land. In these writings many very different women lament a homeland, live expectantly, and face an uncertain future as bravely as possible.
- Subject
- Women > New Zealand > History > 19th century > Sources
- Note
- Includes index.
- "Drawn mainly from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library."
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Entering Nineteenth-Century New Zealand -- Ch. 2. A Place to Live -- Ch. 3. When Land Becomes the Argument - War in the North Island and its Aftermath -- Ch. 4. Colonial Housekeeping and Moving in Society -- Ch. 5. Falling in Love - or Lust -- Ch. 6. Husbands and Wives -- Ch. 7. Expecting and Childbirth -- Ch. 8. Parents and Children -- Ch. 9. Seeking Independence -- Ch. 10. Death and Grieving -- Ch. 11. Epilogue - Writing On.
- ISBN
- 1869401298
- LCCN
- 96154732
- OCLC
- 35822713
- ocm35822713
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries