Home and away: a Scottish schoolmistress in colonial Australia and lowland Scotland in the second half of the nineteenth century
This article examines the stereotype of the middle-class Victorian woman limited to a life of domesticity and dependency through a case study of a lower middle-class Scottish woman, Jane Hamilton (1827-1898), daughter of a Presbyterian minister. In the early 1860s, the Reverend David Essdaile noted...
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2011-02.
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