Abstract
In 1843 near the town of Geelong, in the Port Phillip Bay area of south-eastern Australia, William Adeney, a young man in his twenties and a recent emigrant from England, met a group of Aboriginal people near a squatter’s run. Later that day, he recorded the encounter in his diary:
Met some natives today and had a short yarn with them. Seeing that I looked inquisitively at them they asked me for a sixpence ... the woman said ‘give me sixpence’ so I took one from my pocket and asked whose head was on it when one of the men replied ‘white [woman]’.1
Met some natives today and had a short yarn with them. Seeing that I looked inquisitively at them they asked me for a sixpence ... the woman said ‘give me sixpence’ so I took one from my pocket and asked whose head was on it when one of the men replied ‘white [woman]’.1
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Mistress of everything |
| Subtitle of host publication | Queen Victoria in Indigenous worlds |
| Editors | Sarah Carter, Maria Nugent |
| Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Chapter | 8 |
| Pages | 187-209 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781526100320 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781784991401 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Publication series
| Name | Studies in Imperialism |
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| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Keywords
- Queen Victoria
- Indigenous Australia
- Indigenous worlds
- imperial pedagogies