Colonial Australian Women Poets

Political Voice and Feminist Traditions

Katie Hansord

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Anthem Press
03 May 2022

Literary studies: poetry & poets; Biography - Australian

Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture

My book traces the significant poetic and political contributions made by non-canonical women poets, situating women's poetry both in colonial Australian print culture and in wider imperial and transnational contexts. Women poets in colonial Australia have tended to be represented as marginal and isolated figures or absent. This study intervenes by demonstrating an alternative networked tradition of transnational feminist poetics and politics beyond and around emergent masculine nationalism, particularly within newspapers and periodical print culture. Without the inclusion of periodical literature, women’s poetry in Australia during the colonial period would appear to have been fairly limited. When periodical literature is taken into account, this picture is radically altered, and poets emerge as consistent contributors, often across a variety of newspapers and journals, who were well-known, influential and connected with political figures and literary circles. In examining this poetry in the original context of the newspapers and journals, the political intervention and the reception of that poetry is made much more apparent.

By: Katie Hansord
Imprint: Anthem Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781839985645
ISBN 10: 183998564X
Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 03 May 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katie Hansord is a writer and researcher living in Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include gender, poetry, feminism, political activism and print culture.

Reviews for Colonial Australian Women Poets: Political Voice and Feminist Traditions

“A ground-breaking examination of five colonial Australian women writers within transnational contexts. The poems of Eliza Hamilton Dunlop, Mary Bailey, Caroline Leakey, Emily Manning and Louisa Lawson are for the first time fully explored in relation to the literary, social and political movements of the nineteenth century.” —Professor Emerita Elizabeth Webby, University of Sydney