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The British empire and Australian girls' annuals
This article explores two series of girls' annuals: the Empire Annual for Australian Girls (1909-30), published by the Religious Tract Society, and the Australian Girl's Annual (1910-3?), published by Cassell. Although both series were seemingly targeted at Australian girls, they were published in Britain before being given a new title and sent to the colonies. This article examines the implications of these British models of girlhood for their explicitly colonial girl readers. The British publishers of these annuals addressed an apparently homogenous readership comprised of girls from white settler colonies and Britain without attempting to customize the contents of their books for different audiences. In both fiction and illustrations, the annuals simultaneously employed and produced a British model of girlhood that was attractive to Australian girl readers.
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Women's writingVolume
21Issue
2Season
Special Issue : Girls' Culture in Colonial Australia and New ZealandPagination
166 - 184Publisher
Taylor & FrancisLocation
Abingdon, Eng.Publisher DOI
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0969-9082eISSN
1747-5848Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2014, Taylor & FrancisUsage metrics
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