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