Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950
Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950

Author: K. Moruzi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-25

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1137356359

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Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood.

Leisure and Pleasure
Leisure and Pleasure

Author: Caroline Daley

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 177558108X

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This exploration of an unexpected aspect of New Zealand social history examines the human body at leisure in the years 1900&–1960. This book studies bodybuilding, especially the famous strongman Eugen Sandow; growing ideas about fitness, health, and exercise; the rise of beauty contests; the culture of the beach and the pool; nudism; and children's play and the appearance of playgrounds. The central aim is to explore how bodies—men's, women's and children's—were shaped and displayed through various leisure pursuits in 20th-century New Zealand.

An Unsettled Spirit
An Unsettled Spirit

Author: Terry Sturm

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1775580164

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A critical biography of the popular 1920s novelist G. B. Lancaster (the pen name of Edith Lyttleton), this book tells the moving story of her life and work. Sturm paints a fascinating picture of the harsh experience of a woman writer in the first half of the 20th century whose economic circumstances shaped much of her output but who struggled nonetheless to move beyond the limits of potboilers toward more serious and original work.