INDEX

A.1. (188890) magazine, 179

abolitionist movement, 43
Aborigines, 26, 28, 33, 129, 130
adventure fiction, 197
for boys, 175, 199, 200, 203
The Coral Island (Ballantyne), 10, 15364,
246 n.10, 247 n.20
for girls, 16575, 179, 193205
transgressive elements, 2035
agriculture, 158, 159, see also cattle farming;
sheep farming
Alcott, Louise May, Little Women, 46
Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand,
49
alienation, 72, 76, 79, 213
allochronism, 211
Anderson, Benedict, 26, 55, 56, 69, 231 n.2
angel-in-the-house, 24, 46, 47, 50, 106, 203
Anglo-Saxonism, 7, 208, 214, 216, 217, 218,
219
anti-emigration literature, 4, 111, 11213
Archibald, Diana C., 8, 34, 1223, 123, 178,
186, 223 n.33, 226 n.4, 231 n.4, 240 n.46
Atalanta (girls magazine), 177, 179, 189
Atwood, Margaret, 71
Aunt Judys Magazine, 177, 178
Austen, Jane, 25, 143
Emma, 37, 75
Mansfield Park, 117
Persuasion, 32
Australia, 9, 13, 116, 143, 150, 186, 213,
214, 215, 218
arcadian myth, 12930
bushfires, 25, 90, 12939
emigration fiction in magazines, 8891,
95, 97, 98

feminine ideal, 1812

gold rush, 112
independence, 39
John Caldigate (Trollope), 1237
political leadership, 3940
settler novels, 2340
The Other Side of the World (Mayo),
1803, 184, 187, 188
Tichborne Claimant, 112, 114, 11922
womens rights, 219
Aylmer, Isabella, Distant Homes; or The
Graham Family in New Zealand, 44,
458, 50, 53

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Baden-Powell, Sir Robert, 173

Baines, Dudley, 1023
Ballantyne, R. M.
The Coral Island, 10, 15364, 246 n.10,
247 n.20
Hudsons Bay, 246 n.8
Ballstadt, C., 232 n.22
Barker, Lady (Mary Anne Barker Broome),
43, 1435, 242 n.3, 244 n.16, 244 n.31
Station Amusements in New Zealand, 42,
141, 144, 145
Station Life in New Zealand, 41, 141, 144,
145
A Years Housekeeping in South Africa, 141,
148
Beer, Gillian, Can the Native Return, 99
Beetham, Margaret and Boardman, Kay, 189
Belich, James, 8, 45, 141, 222 n.17
Bell, Duncan, Victorian Visions of Global
Order, 13
Bentley, Richard, 64, 65, 73, 233 n.22
Billington, Ray Allen, 93
Blackie publishers, 194

257

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Victorian Settler Narratives

blackmail, 120, 124, 125, 126

Blackwell, Jeannine, 165
Blackwoods Magazine, 232 n.22
Bonwick, James, 133
booster literature, 45, 111
Bourdieu, Pierre, 25
Bracken, Thomas, 41
Braddon, Mary
Aurora Floyd, 120
Lady Audleys Secret, 116, 240 n.36
Brantlinger, Patrick, 15, 118
Bratton, J. S., 199
Brazil, 116, 199
Brewer, Mrs, 1867
Bristow, Joseph, 170, 246 n.10, 248 n.22
British Columbia, 197
British Empire, 1, 215
colonial representation in British parliament, 210
dependency on settler colonies, 20910
experimentalism, 213
portable domesticity, 7
women building, 57, 165, 178, 248 n.7
British Female Emigration Society, 190
British Womens Emigration Association
(BWEA), 193, 195, 196, 205
Britishness, 58, 119, 142, 162, 164
Bront, Charlotte
Jane Eyre, 119, 214
Broome, Frederick Napier, 143, 144
Brown, Charlotte, 42
Browne, Mrs Walter, 180, 188
Buckner, Phillip and Francis, R. Douglas,
142
Buller, Charles, 118
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 130
The Coming Race, 208
Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, 238 n.4
Burton, Antoinette, 248 n.7
bushfires, 25, 90, 12933
Black Thursday (1851), 1339
Butler, Samuel, Erewhon, 208, 254 n.4
Buzard, James, 15, 221 n.1

Canada, 7185, 115, 116, 218

advice for potential female emigrants to,
186, 1889, 190
emigration fiction in popular magazines,
945, 97
female emigration to, 1834, 1978
New Girl adventure stories set in, 194
settler memoirs, 5569
Carnell, Jennifer, 120
Carpenter, Humphrey and Prichard, Mari,
1678
Cassells Illustrated Family Paper, 133, 135
castaways
female Crusoes, 16575
The Swiss Family Robinson (Wyss), 45, 168,
169, 173, 248 n.19
cattle farming, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 33, 48, 88,
90, 1356
Caulfeild, Sophie F. A., The Governess Difficulty, 185
Central America, 186
Cheeseman, Clara, A Rolling Stone, 121
Chilton, Lisa, 1011, 179, 182, 183, 195
China, 116
Chisholm, Caroline, 129, 137
Christian manliness, 160, 163
Christianity, 1445, 151, 156, 159, 160,
161, 166, 217, see also missionaries
Church Missionary Society, 162
Clacy, Mrs Charles, A Bush Fire, 1378
Clarke, Marcus, For the Term of his Natural
Life, 1201, 240 n.40
class anxiety, 78, 80
class conflict, 24
class system, 36, 37, 38, 40, 634, 65, 66,
182, 1847, 2012
Claybaugh, Amanda, 13
Clode, Danielle, 130
Colley, Linda, 142
Collins, Paul, 133, 241 n.12, 242 n.20
Collins, Wilkie, 99
Armadale, 116, 119
The Lady of Glenwith Grange, 239
The Moonstone, 114, 116
The New Magdalen, 116
No Name, 116
The Woman in White, 116
Colonial Question, 209, 210

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Calder, Alex, 44
California, 87, 92, 171, 197, 210, 215

Index
colonial settler writing, 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 14, 44,
119, 120; see also under author
colonization, 16575
civilizing mission of, 45, 48, 144
elimination strategy, 21617
experimentalism, 20813
Commonwealth Electoral Act (1902), 219
convicts, 33, 35, 38, 115, 129
in fiction, 116, 1201
former, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 36, 122
and gentlewomen, 368
returning, 116, 117
transported, 24, 30, 102, 115, 116, 125,
136, 149, 208
Coombes, Annie, 6, 221 n.1
Corbett, Mrs George, Little Miss Robinson
Crusoe, 174
corruption, 34, 122, 125, 126, 127
cosmopolitanism, 5, 13, 105, 1067, 225
n.61
partial, 101, 1078
Cowper, William, Verses, Supposed to be
Written by Alexander Selkirk, 156, 157
Craik, Dinah Mulock, Olive, 119
Craik, George L., New Zealanders, 67
Culley publishers, 194
cultural capital (Bourdieu), 25, 30, 32, 33
cultural cloning (Belich), 8, 142
cultural portability, 67, 14, 119, 141,
15960, 1634
cultural values, 56, 58, 59, 62, 65

Dickens, Charles, 2, 118

angel-in-the-house, 106
arcadian myth of Australian countryside,
130
Bleak House, 130
David Copperfield, 115
defender of Sir John Franklin, 99
Dombey & Son, 116
emigration and, 238 n.4
Great Expectations, 100, 114, 116, 221 n.1
Household Words, 278, 135
Little Dorrit, 100
Martin Chuzzlewit, 5, 115
Nicholas Nickleby, 116
A Tale of Two Cities, 99109, 238 n.5
didacticism, 4553, 58, 678, 165, 168, 173
Dilke, Charles, 7, 20910, 215, 217, 219
Dingley, Robert, 27, 227 n.41
domestic goddess, 1934, 200, 205; see also
Marchant, Bessie
domestic labour, 42, 47, 50, 58, 106, 201,
203
domestic service, 1845, 187, 188, 196, 197
domesticity, 5, 43, 205
adventure and, 154
angel-in-the-house, 24, 46, 47, 50, 106,
203
Christian, 160
disruptive returnees, 114
failure to establish, 153, 1578
female castaways, 167, 168
female landed Crusoes, 170
feminine gentility, 34
gender and, 201
heroism and, 2023
idealization of, 1234, 154, 174, 175, 178
middle-class, 57, 64, 65, 105, 154, 158, 204
portability of, 23, 4, 6, 7, 8, 35, 5569,
114, 117, 123, 130, 1323, 138, 194
reverse portability, 118, 119, 123
Victorian conceptions of empire and, 116,
117
whitewashed cottage idyll, 154, 1589,
160
Doust, Janet L., 227 n.33
dress
Canadian bush-settlers, 66
colonial life, 181

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Daily Southern Cross, 46

Dalziel, Raewyn, 9, 412, 119
Dannenberg, Hilary, 214
David, Deidre, 118, 174
Davidoff, Leonore and Hall, Catherine, 158
Davidson, Alastair, 38
Dawson, C., 240 n.40
Dawson, Graham, 1534
Defoe, Daniel
Moll Flanders, 214
Robinson Crusoe, 165, 168
deforestation, 131
Denham, Paul, After Twenty Years, 923, 96
Denison, C. E., 250 n.13
Dibdin, Charles, Hannah Hewit; Or, The
Female Crusoe, 167, 171, 172, 174

259

260

Victorian Settler Narratives

European, 159, 160

female castaways, 169
feminine gentility, 34
Flora Lyndsay (Moodie), 778, 80
squatters, 31
Dyson, Marianne, 146
East India Company, 215
eccentricity, 75, 767
economic depression, 28, 56
Edger, Samuel, 49
education, 52, 16970
and emigration, 182, 184, 185
female castaways, 173
for women, 189
egalitarianism, 143, 207, 217, 219
Eliot, George, 209
Elizabeth, Charlotte, Personal Recollections,
56
Elliott, Dorice Williams, 123
Ellis, Ellen, Everything is Possible to Will,
445, 4953
Ellis, Sarah Stickney, The Women of England,
Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits,
42
Ellis, William, 162
emigration, 1, 2
assisted schemes, 56, 129, 1801, 1845,
190
booster literature, 45, 111
class hierarchy and, 1847
correspondence, 18991
disappointment, 5, 63, 64, 96, 144
failed, 11214, 115, 117
female, 8, 1012, 42, 96, 97, 17791
fiction, 7385, 8798
fiction versus reality, 97, 1024
gender and, 3, 160
information and advice, 186, 18991
literary plot resolutions, 115
national identity and, 142
numbers, 102, 237 n.45
of the poor, 63, 64, 65
societies, 179, 1801, 1823, 184, 187,
188, 190, 192, 193, 1956, 205
of unwanted characters, 118; see also
propaganda
endogamy, 199, 200

England, 213, 214

English Womens Journal, Emigration, 196
Englishness, 72, 210, 222 n.23
Englishwomans Review, 180
Enlightenment, 212
evangelicalism, 42, 44, 78, 154, 161, 169
Examiner, 46
explorers, 99, 171
Fabian, Johannes, 211
false claimants, 118, 239 n.19
John Caldigate (Trollope), 1247
Tichborne Claimant, 112, 114, 11922
Family Colonization Loan Society, 129
Family Herald magazine, 88, 90, 92
federation, 39, 210
Female Middle-Class Emigration Society
(FMCES), 1956
female submission, 44, 50, 513
female suffrage, 43, 53, 219
Femina (Mary Ann Mller), Appeal to the
Men of New Zealand, 43
feminine gentility, 347, 40
feminine purity, 178, 181, 186
femininity, 26, 122, 123
female Crusoes, 16575
idealization of, 50, 177, 1802, 186, 193,
194
indigeneity and, 217
Marchant and, 199200, 202
new type in New Zealand, 44
progressive, 1934
feminism, 42, 43, 45, 4953, 180, 1956,
2089, 213, 21819, 247 n.7
Ferguson, Dugald, Vicissitudes of Bush Life in
Australia and New Zealand, 44
Ferrall, C. and Jackson, A., 203
Fitzgibbon, Agnes, 68
Flint, Kate, 13
flora and fauna, 55, 668, 89, 90, 134, 147,
170
Floyd, Emma, 34
forgery, 1245
Forman, Ross, 199
fortune-seekers, 5, 10, 8798, 113, 117, 123,
1257
Franklin, Sir John, 99

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Index

261

Frasers Magazine, 39
Australian Federation and Imperial Union,
210
Sketches at the Antipodes, 11213
free-selectors, 234, 29, 31, 38, 40
French migrs, 99, 100, 101, 102, 108, 109
French Revolution, 100, 101, 102, 105, 211
Friendly Leaves (girls magazine), 1789

governesses, 35, 36, 37, 180, 185, 187

Graphic, 199
Greater Britain, 7, 59, 20910, 215, 217,
219
Greg, W. R., Why are Women Redundant?,
177
Guizot family, 142
gunfights, 934

Gall and Inglis publishers, 194

Gambier, Captain, 159
gardening, 65, 66, 130, 158, 159, 167
Gaskell, Elizabeth, Mary Barton, 115
Gatty, Margaret, 178
Geelong Advertiser, 134
Geelong Intelligencer, 133
gender, 3, 4, 8, 37, 40, 468, 113, 217, 219
civilizing mission, 1013
cultural capital, 25
domesticity, 201
equality, 52
public and private spheres, 43, 44
gentility, 5, 25, 26, 72, 78, 123
feminine, 347, 40
masculine, 303, 38, 40
Geographical Magazine, 199
German settlers, 59, 62, 65
Germany, 116
Gerson, Carol, 73, 74, 82
Gibbons, Peter, 48
Gilderdale, Betty, 143
Giles, Paul, 7, 13
A Girl-Emigrant: A Canadian Story (anon.)
(GOP), 183, 197, 198
Girl Guide movement, 173
girlhood, 467, 1713, 177, 193
Girls Empire, 177, 179
Girls Friendly Society, 1789
Girls Own Paper (GOP), 1712, 17791,
193, 196, 197, 198
Girls Realm, 172, 177
globalization, 78
Godin, Madame, 171
gold-diggers, 117, 123
gold rush, 289, 889, 112, 116, 120, 123,
124, 129
Goodlad, L. M. E., 225 n.61
Gothard, Jan, 170, 1823, 1845

Hall, Catherine and Rose, Sonya, 6, 13

Hammerton, A. James, 3, 12
Hardy, Thomas, The Return of the Native, 99
Harper, Marjory, 97
Harris, Alexander, The Emigrant Family,
29, 36
Harrison, Anna, 59
Hearth and Home, 196
Hemans, Felicia, The Homes of England,
589, 61, 63, 66
Henty, G. A., 44, 199, 200, 204
heroism, 64, 99, 129, 138, 170, 178, 1945,
2023, 233 n.29
Hettinga, Donald R., 199
home, 4
back home, 1, 2, 5, 9
as doubly resonant term, 56
idealization through absence, 1234
located within a person, 143
protecting from bushfires, 1323, 135
as sanctuary, 34, 136, 138
The Homes of England (Hemans), 589,
61, 63, 66
white womans alignment with, 160; see
also returnees
homemaking, 10, 11, 20, 41, 135
homesickness, 62, 120, 131, 141, 143, 144,
145
House of Commons, 209
House of Lords, 39
Howitt, Mary, Our Cousins in Ohio, 56, 59,
62, 232 n.17
Howitt, William
Black Thursday, 133, 1347
Tallangetta, the Squatters Home, 289
humanitarianism, 162

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identity, 1045, 107, 1089, 156, 164

identity fraud, 112, 114, 11920, 121

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Illustrated London News, 59, 232 n.15

imagined community (Anderson), 22, 26,
38, 55, 62, 189, 209, 210
Imperial Colonist, 193, 196, 197, 198, 203
imperial panic, fictional treatment of, 114,
116, 119, 121, 127
imperialism, 3
civilizing mission, 10
domestic goddess, 193205
domesticity and, 178
transporting social and cultural practices,
51, 53
triumphalist, 157
women and, 174, 175, 17791
impostors, 112, 114, 117, 11822
India, 115, 116, 195
indigenous people, 26, 211
Aborigines, 26, 28, 33, 129, 130
Canadian, 64, 95
conversion to Christianity, 217
female castaways and, 172, 173
femininity, 161
intermarriage with, 207, 21617
Maoris, 445, 47, 48, 49, 51, 523, 244
n.31
missionaries and, 142, 1612
myth, 217
Native American, 161, 1667, 170, 171,
249 n.29
womens rights, 49
Innes, Margaret, 197
intertextuality, 7, 15, 11112
Irish immigrants, 63, 64
Italy, 116

Kingsley, Henry, The Recollections of Geoffrey

Hamlyn, 36, 378
Kingston, W. H. G., 1689
Kirby, Joshua Henry, Henry Ancrum: A Tale
of the Last War in New Zealand, 44
Klickmann, Flora, 250 n.7
Klinck, Carl, 645
Knight, Charles, 678, 231 n.7
Knight, E. C., 143
Kranidis, Rita, 12, 224 n.43
Lake, Marilyn, 9, 223 n.33
Lancaster, G. B., 44
Land Acts (1860s), 29
Lane, Edward William, Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, 67
Lansbury, Coral, 116, 130
Lawrason, Julia, Summer in Muskoka: The
Free Grant District of Canada, 186
Lawson, Henry, Drovers Wife, 1312
Le Jeune, Franoise, 55, 57
Lester, Alan, 162
Levine, Philippa, 11, 12
Lewis, Sarah, Womens Mission, 42
The Library of Entertaining Knowledge
series, 678
liminality, 80
Literary Garland, 73
Literary Gazette, 233 n.26
Livingstone, David, 147
Lloyd, Amy, 161
LMS (London Missionary Society), 159,
162
London Journal, 94

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Jackson, J. (illustrator), 456

Jackson, J. E., Cecil and Mary, 141
Jacobs, Margaret D., 218
Jasper Hardings Mystery (S. DA), 889
jigsaws, The Homes of England, 59, 61
Johnston, Anna, 9, 223 n.35
Jones, Lawrence, 44
journalism, 144
Juan Fernndez island, 155
Kings Own magazine, 194
Kingsley, Charles, Westward Ho!, 168

Mackellar, Dorothea, 129

Mackenzie, Alice
Mission Life among the Zulu-Kafirs, 244
n.24
Seeing and Hearing, 149
Mackenzie, Anne, 147
Mackenzie, Charles, Bishop of Central
Africa, 147
McKernan, Susan, 25
Macmillan, Alexander, 244 n.16
Macmillans Magazine, 196
McWilliam, Rohan, 120
Magazine for the Young, 146, 148

Index
magazines, 193
emigration correspondence, 18991, 193
emigration fiction in, 8798
late-Victorian girls, 1713, 177, 193
penny-weekly, 235 n.3
pro-emigration, 1967
Major, Alan, 194
male domination, 44, 512
Mander, Jane, 44
manliness, 96, 160, 163, 236 n.39
Manning, Susan and Taylor, Andrew, 13
Maoris, 445, 47, 48, 49, 51, 523, 244 n.31
Marchant, Bessie, 199
Among the Torches of the Andes, 194
The Bonded Three, 195
A Courageous Girl: A Story of Uruguay, 201
Cumbered with Service, 194
A Daughter of the Ranges, 200, 201, 202,
204
Daughters of the Dominion: A Story of the
Canadian Frontier, 194, 201, 203,
204
A Girl and a Caravan: The Story of Irmas
Quest in Persia, 194, 203
The Girl Captives: A Story of the Indian
Frontier, 194
A Girl of the Northland, 200, 202
The Gold-Marked Charm: A Story of the
Blue Nile Country, 194
Held at Ransom: A Story of Colonial Life,
194
Helen of the Black Mountain: A Story of
Montenegro, 194
Lois in Charge, or, A Girl of Grit: A Story of
a Plantation in Brazil, 199
Sisters of Silver Creek: A Story of Western
Canada, 194, 201
Three Girls on a Ranch, 198, 200, 201, 202,
204
marriage, 43, 50, 52, 177, 196, 199200, 203
mixed, 172, 207, 21618
probationary, 207, 211, 212, 213, 217, 218
Marryat, Frederick, Masterman Ready, 248
n.17
Martin, Lady, 42
Martineau, Harriet, 42
A History of England During the Thirty
Years Peace, 56

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Mary Aylmer; Or, Ranch Life in British

Columbia (GOP), 197, 198
masculine gentility, 26, 303, 38, 40
masculinity, 138, 1701, 236 n.39
adventure, 11213, 123
domestic femininity, 153
emigration and, 96
gold rush and, 89
sheep and cattle farming, 901
threat to, 164
whiteness and, 217
maternalism, 121, 184
maternity, 52, 174
matrimonial market, 196
Mauritius, 143
Mayo, Isabella Fyvie, The Other Side of the
World, 1803, 184, 187, 188, 250 n.16
Meade, L. T., Four on an Island, 173
Melbourne Argus, 134
Mercury and Daily Post, 195
Meteyard, Eliza, Lucy Dean, 249 n.1
metropolitan fiction, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 910, 13,
14, 15, 112, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122, 126,
221 n.1
middle-class, 2012
domesticity, 57, 64, 65, 105, 154, 158, 204
female emigration, 145, 1845, 187, 193,
196, 201, 214
free selectors, 40
girls magazines, 179, 182, 184, 190
organization for working-class girls, 178
women, 42, 44, 63, 132, 144
Midgley, Clare, Feminism and Empire, 42
Mill, John Stuart, 43, 209
Mills, Sara, 145
mimeticism, 8, 160, 164, 247 n.26
miscegenation, 172, 207, 216, 21718
missionaries, 9, 423, 44, 45, 48, 51, 141,
1424, 1469, 151, 154, 159, 161,
1623, 1667, 170, 194, 223 n.35
Missionary Herald of the Baptist Missionary
Society, 194
Mitchell, Donald, 56
Mitchell, Sally, 194, 199, 200
Montagu, Clementine, A Wifes Revenge,
945
Monthly Packet, 49, 142, 145, 189, 243 n.9,
250 n.2, 251 n.51

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Victorian Settler Narratives

Moodie, John, 57, 63

Moodie, Susanna, 231 n.3
childhood, 78
Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful
Life, 7385, 234 n.13
Life in the Clearing, 63, 71
Noah Cotton, 74, 825, 233 n.2
Rachel Wilde, or, Trifles from the Burthen
of a Life, 234 n.10
Roughing it in the Bush, 5, 55, 56, 57,
625, 66, 713, 74, 232 n.22, 233
n.23, 233 n.26
Trifles from the Burthen of a Life, 73, 74
Moore, Grace, 118
More, Hannah
Coelebs in Search of a Wife, 50
Strictures on the Modern System of Female
Education, 42
Moretti, Franco, 117
Mormons, 213, 215
Moruzi, Kristine, 171, 193
motherhood, 9, 10, 52, 62, 173, 201
Myers, Janet C., 8, 14, 35, 118, 120, 130, 222
n.27, 240 n.36
Myras Journal, 196

Olssen, Erik, 41
OMalley, Andrew, 168
orphan emigration, 251 n.44
Orton, Arthur, 11920, see also Tichborne
Claimant
otherness, 62, 65, 114, 117, 123, 124, 211,
215
Owen, Robert, 212
partial cosmopolitanism, 101, 1078
patriarchy, 51, 81
Patterson, Robert, 1357
Patteson, John Coleridge, 162, 163
Pearsons Weekly, 93
periodicals see magazines
Persia, 194, 203
Peterman, Michael, 67
Peterson, Linda H., 4, 144, 160
Phillips, Richard, 195, 203
Pickles, Katie, 42
Colonization, Gender and Empire, 43, 44
Pierson, Ruth Roach, 11
Plotz, John, 8, 119, 130, 222 n.23
Plum, Polly, What Women Want, 43, 45
Porter, Andrew, 1612
Porter, Frances and MacDonald, Charlotte,
1501
Pratt, Ambrose, Her Assigned Husband, 38
Pratt, Mary Louise, 15, 157, 217
prize-giving, 195
propaganda
pro-emigration, 4, 9, 14, 45, 59, 60, 956,
111, 117, 137, 17791, 195, 196
utopian, 142
public and private spheres, 43, 44, 45, 1323
Punch, Here and There print, 59, 60
Putnam, George, 232 n.22, 233 n.26
Pykett, Lyn, 179
Pyne, Stephen J., 133

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A Narrow Escape: An Australian Story

(G.M.), 901
national identity, 55, 62, 66, 71, 73, 100,
101, 104, 105, 1089, 142, 1578, 211
National Review, Why are Women redundant?, 177
Native Americans, 161, 1667, 170, 171,
249 n.29
natural history, 55, 668, 89, 90, 134, 147,
170
New Girl culture, 194
New South Wales, 27, 112, 122, 123, 130
New Woman literature, 193, 194, 208
New Zealand, 9, 143, 1445, 1501, 186,
187, 190, 215
female settler fiction, 4153
Tichborne romance set in, 121
newspapers, 55, 133, 1345, 193
Nimmo publishers, 194
Norcia, Megan, 195
Nova Scotia, 58

Queensland, 126, 190

racial difference, 160, 215
racial mixture, 21618
racial oppression, 43, 45, 49, 52
racial prejudice, 62, 146, 148
Reade, Charles, 130
It is Never Too Late to Mend, 120

Index
Reform Bill (1832), 149
Reid, Marion, 43
religion, 78, 189
Religious Tract Society, 178, 194, see also
Girls Own Paper
Rendall, Jane, 223 n.34
Rennie, James, 67
returnees, 5, 11127
disappointed, 5, 11214
disruptive, 11314
false claimants, 112, 114, 11822, 1247,
239 n.19
in fiction, 99109, 11516
finding the old country dull and disappointing, 1434
impostors, 112, 114, 117, 11822
in John Caldigate (Trollope), 112, 1217
in My Young Alcides (Yonge), 14950
reluctant, 145
in A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), 99109
unwanted, 11516, 119
reunions, 21415
Reynolds, Kimberley, 193
Richmond, Jane Maria, 42
Robertson, Henrietta, 147
Robinson, Mary Darby, 43
Roe, Michael, 29
Rogers, Woodes, A Cruising Voyage Round
the World, 155, 156, 157
Rose, Louisa, 42
Ross, Adelaide, 182, 196
Rowbotham, Judith, 193
Ruskin, John, 159
The Poetry of Architecture, 1578
Rye, Maria, 195

Selwyn, Sarah, 42
sensationalism, 112, 113, 114, 11618, 120,
123, 1267, 1345
Sewell, Elizabeth Missing, 146
sexism, 203
sexual freedom, 208
Shayle-George, Frances, 41
sheep farming, 23, 25, 279, 31, 33, 38, 48,
88, 90, 95, 122, 132, 138, 1434, 145
Shields, Carol, Susanna Moodie: Voice and
Vision, 73
silver mining, 92
Simpkin Marshall publishers, 194
Simpson, Mary, An Address to Farm-Servants, 149
slavery, 43, 49, 52, 80
Smith, Michelle J., 161, 195, 2001, 202
social capital, 32, 33
social change, 21213
social Darwinism, 49
social engineering, 208
Society for the Promotion of Christian
Knowledge, 194
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel,
143
Society Islands, 159
Somerville Club, 180
South Africa, 98, 143, 146, 197, 215
South America, 186
South Australia, 131, 190, 208, 211, 219
Spectator, 39
Spence, Catherine Helen
Clara Morison, 35, 214
Handfasted, 49, 20719
A Week in the Future, 216
squatters, 2340, 26, 135
Stables, Dr Gordon, The Girl Crusoes: A
Tale of the Indian Ocean, 1723, 174
Stafford, Jane, 44
Stasiulis, Daiva and Yuval-Davis, Nira, 10,
38
stereotypes, 5, 9, 20, 72, 88, 97, 112, 117,
122, 125, 126, 199, 203
Stewart, Adela, Simple Life in New Zealand,
42
Stewart, Frances, Our Forest Home, 231 n.3
Stoler, Ann Laura and Cooper, Frederick,
Tensions of Empire, 208

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Said, Edward, Culture and Imperialism, 14,

221 n.1
Salmon, Edward, 168, 1989
Schaffer, Kay, 132
Scotland, 63, 211
Scott, Sir Walter, The Monastery, 212
SDUK (Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge), 67
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, Between Men, 24
Seeley, J. R., The Expansion of England, 7
Selkirk, Alexander, 154, 155, 156, 160
Selkirk, James, 161, 164

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Victorian Settler Narratives

Stoney, Major B., Taranaki: A Tale of the

War, 44
Strang, Mrs Herbert, The Girl Crusoes, 174
Strickland, Samuel, 231 n.3
Strobel, Margaret, 9
Surrey, C. E., The Miniature, 934
Sydney Mail, 207
Sydney Morning Herald, 28
Tasmania, 187, 190
Taylor, Mary, 43
Tennehouse, Leonard, 221 n.1
Thackeray, William, 119
Thistlewaite, Frank, 237 n.3
Thomas, Mary, 131
Thomson, Helen, 212
Thomson, Helen and Albinski, Nancy Bowman, 213
Thomson, Jemima, Memoirs of British
Female Missionaries, 42
Thorne, Susan, Congregational Missions and
the Making of an Imperial Culture in
Nineteenth-Century England, 9, 247 n.23
Thurston, John, The Work of Words, 712,
73, 74
Tichborne Claimant, 112, 114, 11922
The Times, 39, 249 n.29
Times Literary Supplement, 195
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth, Personal Recollections, 578
Traill, Catherine Parr, 231 n.3, 231 n.9
The Backwoods of Canada, 55, 56, 57, 658
Canadian Crusoes, 68, 1701, 172
The Canadian Settlers Guide, 68
Canadian Wildflowers, 68
Studies of Plant Life, 68
Traill, Thomas, 57
transatlantic studies, 7, 13
transportation see convicts
Trinidad, 143
Trollope, Anthony, 2
Australia and New Zealand, 28
The Fixed Period, 123
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil, 235, 26, 29,
302, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 123, 126,
226 n.4
John Caldigate, 112, 1217
The New Zealander, 123
The Three Clerks, 122

Trollope, Frederick, 122

Turner, Ethel, 202
Twells, Alison, 144
Tytler, Ann Fraser, Leila; or, The Island,
16970
United British Womens Emigration Association, 182
United States, 7, 13, 71, 119, 212, 213, 214,
216, 218
California, 87, 92, 171, 197, 210, 215
emigration fiction in magazines, 914,
95, 97
English-speaking readers, 231 n.2
ranchers, 23
utopian socialism, 212
utopianism, 4, 49, 12930, 142, 20719, 208
Van Diemans Land, 27, 28
Vargish, Thomas, 214
Victoria, Australia, 27, 129, 190
Black Thursday (1851), 1339
Victoria, Queen, 202
Vidal, Mary, Bengala, 256, 29, 323, 357,
39
voluntary self-exile, 122

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Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 41, 160

Walton, Susan, 42, 161
Ward, Russel, 226 n.9
Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca, 165
WES (Womens Emigration Society), 179,
1801, 1823, 184, 187, 188, 190
West Indies, 116, 117, 186
westerns, 934
Wevers, Lydia, 44
White, Gilbert, Natural History of Selborne,
68
Whittaker, Elizabeth, Robina Crusoe, And
Her Lonely Island Home, 172, 173
Whyte, John, 41
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being
Earnest, 214
wilderness, 68, 72, 945, 1701, 172, 186
Wilkes, G. A., 26
William Rainey publishers, 194
Williams, John, 162, 163
Williams, Mark, 44

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Williams, Raymond, 113
Winkfield, Unca Eliza, The Female American, 1657, 170
Witt, Madame de, 142
Wolfe, Patrick, 216
Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the
Rights of Women, 43, 49
Woman at Home, 196
women
autonomy, 501, 656, 178, 180, 196
civilizing role, 26, 34, 412, 160, 184, 196,
198, 2023
defending homes against bushfires, 1313
domestic goddess, 193205
domestic labour, 345
empire-building, 57, 165, 178, 248 n.7
empowerment, 2001, 205
female Crusoes, 16575
idealized British, 1601
labour market, 1845
moral authority, 41, 50
restricted lives, 25, 34
rights for, 49, 208, 209, 219

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safety of migrant, 1723, 17980, 181,

1824, 190, 250 n.18
suffrage, 43, 53, 219; see also domesticity;
femininity; feminism; gentility
Wood, Ellen Meiksin, 209
Woodruff, Douglas, 14
Woollacott, Angela, 11, 17, 144, 224 n.55
working-class, 178, 179, 184, 190
Wright, George, Black Thursday, 1334
Wynn, Edith, 190
Wynne, May, 194
Wyss, Johann, The Swiss Family Robinson,
45, 168, 169, 173, 248 n.19
Yonge, Charlotte, 10, 43, 14151, 1423,
144, 1456, 151, 243 n.13
The Making of a Missionary, 244 n.27
Monthly Packet, 49, 142, 145, 189, 243 n.9,
250 n.2, 251 n.51
My Young Alcides, 141, 14950
New Ground, 141, 1469
praise for Friendly Leaves, 179
Young, G. M., Early Victorian England, 14

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Zemka, Sue, 208