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(2017) Claiming space for Australian women's writing, Dordrecht, Springer.
"The inexhaustible properties of a lady's pen"
the literary craft of Georgiana Molloy
Jessica White
pp. 181-196
In 1830, English woman Georgiana Molloy arrived on the shores of Augusta in south-west Western Australia with her husband. Molloy's long letters to her family capture their efforts to establish themselves. While much has been written on Molloy's pioneering spirit, attention to her literary ability has been scarce. This chapter, through its analysis of Molloy's vivid letters to her family and her lush and alluring correspondence with James Mangles, articulates how she used writing to craft a particular persona, advance her knowledge of botany and alleviate her isolation. In doing so, it will illuminate Molloy's growing confidence as a botanist, and the particularly feminine inflection of her responses to the Australian environment.
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White, J. (2017)., "The inexhaustible properties of a lady's pen": the literary craft of Georgiana Molloy, in D. Das & S. Dasgupta (eds.), Claiming space for Australian women's writing, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 181-196.
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