This is part of a series of seven volumes on the history of Victoria. This volume follows the settlement of Port Phillip District between 1835 and 1840.
V. 2A, 2B :Official and private papers dealing with early contacts between settlers and Aborigines; appointment of Protectors of Aborigines, reports of hostilities, extracts from House of Commons Select Committee on Aborigines, Buntingdale (Wesleyan) and Port Phillip missions, Native Police Corps; subsistence and material culture observed; papers of J.R. Orton, G.M. Langhorne, J. Dredge, W. Thomas; careers of F. Fyans, C.W. Sievwright, E.S. Parker; policies on care of Aboriginal orphans and servants, legal rights and protection; index to individual Aborigines -- V.6 :Reproduced primary documents containing mainly brief references to Aborigines; accounts by various members of Mitchells 1836 expedition of conflict with Aborigines near Lake Benanee and associated Legislative Council inquiry documents; the Port Phillip Association and attitude to Aboriginal land rights; complaints of attacks on livestock and settlers in objections to the Squatting Act, 1839; treatment of Aborigines in the standing orders of the Border Police; mention of battle with Aborigines at Yering 1840 - arrest and escape of Jackie Jackie; Tyers expedition; conflict on Mount Wedge station; financing the Protectors of Aborigines -- v. 8: Cumulative indexes to vols 1-7; index of Aboriginal personal names.
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Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers-including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliver & Boyd, Macmillan, and the book printers William Clowes and T&A Constable - taken at ten-year intervals from 1836 to 1916, this book interprets broad trends in the growth and diversity of book publishing in Victorian Britain. Chapters explore the significance of the export trade to the colonies and the rising importance of towns outside London as centres of publishing; the influence of technological change in increasing the variety and quantity of books; and how the business practice of literary publishing developed to expand the market for British and American authors. The book takes examples from the purchase and sale of popular fiction by Ouida, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Ewing, and canonical authors such as George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and Mark Twain. Consideration of the unique demands of the educational market complements the focus on fiction, as readers, arithmetic books, music, geography, science textbooks, and Greek and Latin classics became a staple for an increasing number of publishing houses wishing to spread the risk of novel publication.
The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era A passionate princess, an astute and clever queen, and a cunning widow, Victoria played many roles throughout her life. In Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life, Lucy Worsley introduces her as a woman leading a truly extraordinary life in a unique time period. Queen Victoria simultaneously managed to define a socially conservative vision of Victorian womanhood, while also defying its conventions. Beneath her exterior image of traditional daughter, wife, and widow, she was a strong-willed and masterful politician. Drawing from the vast collection of Victoria’s correspondence and the rich documentation of her life, Worsley recreates twenty-four of the most important days in Victoria's life. Each day gives a glimpse into the identity of this powerful, difficult queen and the contradictions that defined her. Queen Victoria is an intimate introduction to one of Britain’s most iconic rulers as a wife and widow, mother and matriarch, and above all, a woman of her time.