"When London calls" and fleet street beckons : Daley's poem, Reg's Diary - what happens when it all goes "Bung"?
- Authors: Tasker, Meg
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Southerly - Modern Mobilities: Australian-Transnational Writing Vol. 71, no. 1 (2011), p. 107-126
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- Description: A recurrent concern in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century accounts of Australians in London is how "well" writers were doing. The common conception of the trip "Home" to Britain as a quest for cultural and professional success or recognition is reflected in the title of Angela Woollacott's feminist history, To Try Her Fortune in London, and it motivated many Australian writers, even a nationalist republican such as Henry Lawson, to regard London as the centre of literary culture, the best place in which to exercise their talents and ambitions. The emergence in these decades of a generation of "native-born" white Australian travellers who were related to but self-consciously different from the parent stock both in the colonies and in Britain created an anxious interest which fuelled ongoing discussions in newspapers and periodicals, prompted the creation of Anglo-Australian networks, clubs and publications in London, and supported many a columnist or special correspondent reporting back to Australia on the doings of their contemporaries in the great metropolis.
Anglo-Australians on Fleet Street, 1892-1905
- Authors: Tasker, Meg
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Victorian Traffic: Identity, Exchange, Performance p. 95-102
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Francis Adams
- Authors: Tasker, Meg
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: New Dictionary of National Biography Chapter p.
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- Description: 2003004433
Struggle and storm : The life and death of Francis Adams
- Authors: Tasker, Meg
- Date: 2001
- Type: Text , Book
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- Description: A1
- Description: 2003003416
The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series
- Authors: Chivers, Marian , Speed, Lesley , Tasker, Meg
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Vol. 3, no. 3 (2014), p. 335-349
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- Description: The theme of the warrior woman – the woman prepared to fight – appears in popular romance and in multiple time settings. This article will explore the way in which Silhouette Bombshell’s Athena Force series presents a series of romance heroines who are professional, trained warrior women. Rather than presenting these characters as a radical alternative to the more ‘traditional’ romance heroine, it will be shown that they attempt to accommodate a range of ideas about gender; they extend rather than reverse conventional ideas about femininity. There are, however, significant implications for the conventional romance plot as gender roles are unsettled and reconfigured. How are relationships between male and female warriors in the novels characterized, and how does this distinguish them from other contemporary romance fiction? Warrior women in fiction may be seen to subvert gender characteristics traditionally linked to biological traits and the conventional binary opposition between male and female gender roles. By stepping outside the accepted behaviour of females, the warrior woman makes us question those norms we may take for granted and provides another intriguing sub-genre for romance fiction.