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Gender and Genre Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand Edited by Tamara S. Wagner Number 13 DOMESTIC FICTION IN COLONIAL AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND Gender and Genre Series Editor: Ann Heilmann Editorial Board: Audrey Bilger Mark Llewellyn Laura Rattray Johanna M. Smith Jane Spencer Margaret Stetz Titles in this Series 1 Let the Flowers Go: A Life of Mary Cholmondeley Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton 2 Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton and SueAnn Schatz (eds) 3 Edith Wharton’s Th e Custom of the Country: A Reassessment Laura Rattray (ed.) 4 Fictions of Dissent: Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women’s Writing of the Late Nineteenth Century Sigrid Anderson Cordell 5 Victorian Settler Narratives: Emigrants, Cosmopolitans and Returnees in Nineteenth-Century Literature Tamara S. Wagner (ed.) 6 Art and Womanhood in Fin-de-Siècle Writing: Th e Fiction of Lucas Malet, 1880–1931 Catherine Delyfer 7 ‘Th e Celebrated Hannah Cowley’: Experiments in Dramatic Genre, 1776–1794 Angela Escott 8 Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and National Identity, 1721–1814 Kelly McGuire 9 Jane Austen’s Civilized Women: Morality, Gender and the Civilizing Process Enit Karafi li Steiner 10 Winifred Holtby’s Social Vision: ‘Members One of Another’ Lisa Regan 11 Ann Yearsley and Hannah More, Patronage and Poetry: Th e Story of a Literary Relationship Kerri Andrews 12 Th e Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889–1930 Sarah Parker Forthcoming Titles Th e New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel Tara MacDonald www.pickeringchatto.com/gender DOMESTIC FICTION IN COLONIAL AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND Edited by Tamara S. Wagner PICKERING & CHATTO 2014 Published by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited 21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH 2252 Ridge Road, Brookfi eld, Vermont 05036-9704, USA www.pickeringchatto.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior permission of the publisher. © Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd 2014 © Tamara S. Wagner 2014 To the best of the Publisher’s knowledge every eff ort has been made to contact relevant copyright holders and to clear any relevant copyright issues. Any omissions that come to their attention will be remedied in future editions. british library cataloguing in publication data Domestic fi ction in colonial Australia and New Zealand. – (Gender and genre) 1. Australian fi ction – 19th century – History and criticism. 2. New Zealand fi ction – 19th century – History and criticism. 3. Australian fi ction – Women authors – History and criticism. 4. New Zealand fi ction – Women authors – History and criticism. 5. Domestic fi ction, English – History and criticism. 6. Women and literature – Australia – History – 19th century. 7. Women and literature – New Zealand – History – 19th century. 8. Emigration and immigra- tion in literature. 9. Imperialism in literature. 10. Race in literature. I. Series II. Wagner, Tamara S., 1976– editor. 823.8’0993-dc23 ISBN-13: 9781848935167 e: 9781781444948 ∞ Th is publication is printed on acid-free paper that conforms to the American National Standard for the Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Typeset by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by CPI Books CONTENTS List of Contributors ix List of Figures xiii Introduction: Victorian Domestic Fiction Down Under – Tamara S. Wagner 1 1 Retracing Domestic Space: English National Identity in Harriet Martineau’s Homes Abroad – Lesa Scholl 21 2 ‘Hasten to the Land of Promise’: Th e Infl uence of Emigrant Letters on Dickens’s Life and Literature – Diana C. Archibald 37 3 ‘Ever so Many Partings Welded Together’: Serial Settlement and Great Expectations – Jude Piesse 49 4 ‘Th e Heavens were on Fire’: Incendiarism and the Defence of the Settler Home – Grace Moore 63 5 Th e ‘Australian Girl’ and the Domestic Ideal in Colonial Women’s Fiction – Michelle J. Smith 75 6 Fugitive Homes: Multiple Migrations in Ethel Turner’s Fiction – Tamara S. Wagner 91 7 Devout Domesticity and Extreme Evangelicalism: Th e Unsettled Australian Domestic of Maud Jean Franc – Susan K. Martin 111 8 ‘Th at’s what Children are – Nought but Leg-Ropes’: Motherhood in Rosa Praed’s Mrs Tregaskiss – Melissa Purdue 125 9 Th e Antipodal House Beautiful: Louisa Alice Baker’s Colonial Aesthetic – Kirby-Jane Hallum 135 10 Antipodal Home Economics: International Debt and Settler Domesticity in Clara Cheeseman’s A Rolling Stone – Philip Steer 145 11 ‘What is in the Blood will Come Out’: Belonging, Expulsion and the New Zealand Settler Home in Jessie Weston’s Ko Méri – Kirstine Moff at 161 Notes 177 Index 213 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Diana C. Archibald is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Mas- sachusetts Lowell. Specializing in global Dickens, her recent work has focused on Dickens’s relationship to the United States, particularly New England. She served as co-curator of a major exhibition, Dickens and Massachusetts: A Tale of Power and Transformation, available online at library.uml.edu/dickens. Her book, Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Novel (Colum- bia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2002) examines the image of domesticity in novels with settings outside the imperial centre in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. She has also published on anti-Americanism in the nineteenth century, Victorian ports and travel literature, sensation fi ction and domestic abuse, as well as service-learning pedagogy. Kirby-Jane Hallum teaches English Literature at the University of Otago. Her research interests lie in the long nineteenth century in Britain and New Zea- land, with particular focus on women’s and popular literature. Her monograph, Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction: Th e Art of Female Beauty, is forthcoming from Pickering & Chatto in 2015, and she is cur- rently embarking on a new project regarding Britain’s infl uence on colonial New Woman writing. Susan K. Martin is Professor in English and Associate Dean of Research for Humanities and Social Science, at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She teaches Australian studies and Victorian literature, and publishes on nine- teenth- and twentieth-century Australian and British literature and culture. She has published in journals including Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Southern Review and Postcolonial Studies. Her books include Reading the Garden: Th e Settlement of Australia with Katie Holmes and Kylie Mirmohamadi (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2008); Sen- sational Melbourne: Reading, Sensation Fiction and Lady Audley’s Secret in the Victorian Metropolis with Kylie Mirmohamadi (Melbourne: Australian Schol- arly Publishing, 2011) and Colonial Dickens: What Australians Made of the World’s Favourite Writer (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2012). – ix –
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