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Author Hancock, Marguerite.

Title Colonial consorts : the wives of Victoria's governors, 1839-1900 / Marguerite Hancock
Published [Carlton, Vic.] : Miegunyah Press ; Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2001

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Description xxii, 324 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, photographs ; 25 cm
Series Miegunyah Press series ; no. 37
Miegunyah Press series ; no. 37
Contents 1. Sophie La Trobe, 1839-1853 -- 2. Jane, Lady Hotham, 1854-1856 -- 3. Elizabeth, Lady Barkly, 1856-1857 -- 4. Annie, Lady Barkly, 1860-1863 -- 5. Elizabeth, Lady Darling, 1863-1866 -- 6. Georgiana, Lady Manners-Sutton (Viscountess Canterbury), 1866-1873 -- 7. Diamantina, Lady Bowen, 1873-1879 -- 8. Laura, Marchioness of Normanby, 1879-1884 -- 9. Elizabeth, Lady Loch, 1884-1889 -- 10. Hersey, Countess of Hopetoun, 1889-1895 -- 11. Sybil, Lady Brassey, 1895-1900
Summary "Carrying out the duties of a governor's wife was the pinnacle of public service for women in colonial Australia. Victoria had ten British governors during the nineteenth century, and all were married men. (One of them, Sir Henry Barkly, was married twice.) Their wives accompanied them to Melbourne as a matter of course, forced to leave behind their homes, their extended families and sometimes their school-age children." "While researching Colonial Consorts, Marguerite Hancock made extensive use of letters, diaries and family papers in libraries and archives in Switzerland, Scotland and Australia. These reveal the private feelings of eleven very different women: some longed constantly to go home; others found unexpected pleasures in their vice-regal duties, and recorded detailed and sometimes humorous reflections on colonial life."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index
The Miegunyah Press
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-308) and index
Subject Governors' spouses -- Australia -- Victoria -- Biography.
Governors' spouses -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century.
Governors' spouses -- Australia -- Victoria.
SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 1788-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009593
Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- 1834-1900
Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475
Victoria http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046608 -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011436 -- 1834-1900
Victoria http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046608 -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011442
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 2002391527
ISBN 0522849334
Other Titles Wives of Victoria's governors 1839-1900