Title The forgotten rebels of Eureka / Clare Wright

Published Melbourne, Vic. : Text Publishing, 2013 Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2013 ©2013

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Description xvii, 539 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits, photographs ; 24 cm regular print Contents Introduction : dust and rattling bones -- Part 1. Transitions -- 1. A virgin country -- 2. Deliverance -- 3. Crossing the line -- 4. The road -- Part 2. Transformations -- 5. The gold diggers on '54 -- 6. Winners and losers -- 7. The winter of their discontent -- 8. Parting with my sex -- Part 3 : Transgressions -- 9. Burning down the house -- 10. High camp -- 11. Crossing the line (reprise) -- 12. Bloody Sunday Summary The story of the Eureka rebellion may be one of modern Australias foundation myths, but until now it has been told as though only half the participants were there. As Clare Wright reveals, there were any number of women at large on the goldfields, many of them active in pivotal roles Analysis Australian Eureka Stockade Ballarat Women Gold Riots Women's studies History Ballarat (Vic.) - History - 1851-1901 Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Vic.) Gold miners - Victoria - Ballarat - History Riots - Victoria - Ballarat - History Victoria - goldfields Notes Maps on end papers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 506-524) and index Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate, General Notes Stella Prize, 2014 The Nib : Waverley Library Award for Literature, 2014 Subject Riots -- Australia -- Victoria -- Ballarat Revolutions -- Australia -- Victoria -- Ballarat Eureka Stockade, 1854 Women -- Australia -- 19th century -- Social conditions. Gold miners -- Victoria -- Ballarat -- History Gold miners -- Australia -- Victoria -- Ballarat -- History Riots -- Australia -- Victoria -- Ballarat -- History Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Vic., 1854 Gold miners -- Australia -- Ballarat (Vic.) -- History. Riots -- Australia -- Ballarat (Vic.) -- History. Riots -- Australia -- Ballarat (Vic.) SUBJECT Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86004544 Australia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591 -- 1851-1901 Ballarat (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089345 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- 1851-1901 Genre/Form History. ISBN 9781922147370 (hardback) 1922147370 9781922182548 1922182540

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