British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940

by Kate Smith

List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction /Rosie Dias (University of Warwick, UK) and Kate Smith (University of Birmingham, UK) -- Part I: Travel -- 1: The travelling eye: British women in early 19th-century India /David Arnold (University of Warwick, UK) -- 2: Paper trails of Imperial trav(a)ils: Janet Schaw's journal of a journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina and Portugal, 1774-1776 /Viccy Coltman (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- 3: Sketches from the gendered frontier: colonial women's images of encounters with aboriginal people in Australia, 1830s-1860s /Caroline Jordan (La Trobe University, Australia) -- Part II: Collecting -- 4: Of manly enterprise, and female taste!: Mina Malcolm's Cottage as Imperial Exhibition, c. 1790s-1970s /Ellen Filor (University of Michigan, USA) -- 5: A Lily of the Murray: cultivating the colonial landscape through album assemblage /Molly Duggins (National Art School, Australia) -- 6: Collecting the East: women travellers new on the new grand tour /Amy Miller (Royal Museums Greenwich, UK) -- Part III: Identities -- 7: Agents of affect: Queen Victoria's Indian gifts /Rosie Dias (University of Warwick, UK) -- 8: 'Prime Minister in the home department': female gendered identity in 19th-century upper Canada /Rosie Spooner (University of Glasgow, UK) -- 9: Reconstructing the lives of professional women in 1930s Zanzibar through image, object and text /Sarah Longair (British Museum, UK) -- Bibliography -- Index.

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