Comments on: The Season: Colonies & Commonwealths

By: Airminded · History Carnival 77

Airminded · History Carnival 77 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:46:29 +0000

[...] time I did this, I couldn’t find any Australian content. That’s not a problem now. Manners in the colonies. White Australia and the Yellow Peril. Those bawdy Cockatoo Island [...]

By: Evangeline

Evangeline — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:18:20 +0000

Thank you Marg. It’s only because of all the wonderful visitors EP receives that I can continue to deliver consistent quality.

By: Marg

Marg — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:41:35 +0000

Another fascinating post. Thanks for the effort you put into each and every blog post.

By: Evangeline

Evangeline — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:52:32 +0000

Hi Lisa! I’d been meaning to write about society abroad, but it wasn’t until a commenter asked me about life Down Under that I sat down and wrote the post! I’ve found a few titles online (forgotten one of them), but here are two you could probably find for cheap on amazon: Ladies Didn’t: Recollections of an Edwardian Girlhood by Eugenie Mcneil by Eugenie Crawford and A Bunyip Close Behind Me : Recollections of the Nineties by Eugenie McNeil. Retold by Her Daughter, Eugenie Crawford.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:22:40 +0000

I didn’t realise that you’d written this post, Evangeline! I love to read about Australian society in Edwardian times – unfortunately, there’s not much information about it! The heat, the long distances, and the backgrounds of people would have made it rather fraught. I must look up all of the books that you’ve mentioned.