Generations of Books: A Tasmanian Family Library, 1816–1994

Buckridge, Patrick

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“…Nevertheless, in the space of 30 years, she has been the subject of three biographies and a bio-bibliography. 3 This number in itself confirms the amount of interest in a career that spanned three continents and was intertwined with those of some of the most famous composers and virtuosos of the twentieth century. Accounts of her life justly celebrate international attention, unique artistry and triumph over adversity.…”

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confidence: 64%

“…For these reasons, there is indeed something about the Macdougalls' combined historical significance that exceeds the sum of their three careers: together they constitute a 'Macdougall mini-dynasty', in effect, which enacted a certain set of liberal ideas and values regarding economic development, social progress, ethical integrity, national and civic pride, community, civility and human happiness across three generations and 120 years of Australia's history. 3 The majority of the letters are addressed to Belle Robilliard--nine sent in 1946, seven in 1947 and three in 1948. Four letters are addressed to Tom Robilliard (1892-1978), Belle's husband (one in 1947, two in 1948 and one in 1949).…”

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“…Sometimes-as in the case of the six generations of Thomas Archers who owned and inhabited Woolmers Estate in Tasmania for 170 years-the cultural process by which a 'lineage' can be constructed, retrospectively, out of the mere succession of generations may be the most interesting thing about the dynasty as a whole. 3 In other cases, the dynasty may be given historical substance by virtue of its continuing connection with grander narratives. Thus, for example, Stephen Foster's biography of six generations of the Scottish Macpherson family, from the mid eighteenth to the late twentieth century, presents them as a concrete familial instantiation of the whole British imperial project, extending over many parts of the globe-North America, the Caribbean, India and New South Wales-and involving many different activities, enterprises, professions and occupations.…”

Section: Pat Buckridgementioning

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“…Asked Arthur Lindsay to smuggle all he could for her.' 90 81 Kelly to Belle, 3 Belle's work for the Austral-China Trading Company seems to have been predominantly administrative (as 'a shipping clerk'). She dealt with suppliers, distributors and stockists in Australia and arranged for parcels to be sent to Kelly's friends and acquaintances in England, Singapore and Hong Kong, and then chased up these parcels when they failed to arrive.…”

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“…2 After the discovery of gold in New South Wales in 1851, this small Chinese population grew significantly, with as many as 12,000 Chinese arriving in New South Wales in one year alone (1858). 3 Legislation restricted the number of Chinese immigrants between 1862 and 1867, yet over the 25 years from 1856 to 1880, almost 40,000 Chinese entered New South Wales. 4 These goldrush immigrants were characterised by two things in particular: they were predominantly Cantonese and they were overwhelmingly male.…”

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Australians have always been great travellers, not only internationally but between Australian states and territories. Writing about Australian lives is thus a biographical challenge when they transcend national and internal boundaries. It means that, when dealing with mobile subjects, biographers need to be nimble diachronically, because of changing locales over time, and synchronically because many Australians have not always seen themselves as bound to a particular place. Nonetheless, despite the problems of writing about mobile lives, the deft use of biography appeals as a means of examining individual life paths in their immediate contexts within the larger scales suggested by transnational historical practice. An abundance of books, edited volumes, and articles have followed individuals, families, and other collectives as they 'career' (to use the term adopted by Lambert and Lester in their influential 2006 volume, Colonial Lives Across the British Empire) around the globe.Over its 60-year history, the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB), like its British equivalent the (Oxford) Dictionary of National Biography, has been characterised by many as a 'classic instance of national self-regard'. 1 Yet in a similar way to its predecessor, the ADB has been fluid in its conception of the 'national', and thus has endeavoured to recognise Australians who have been active overseas, as well as foreign nationals who have contributed, even fleetingly, to Australian life. Nonetheless, various factors have meant that such an aspiration has tended more toward the ideal than the reality, and that 'the shadow of the nation' has continued to affix itself to biography. 2 Not least of these is the nature of the personal archive, which generally reflects a cultural, social or political contribution to a particular nation state, rather than a life of movement and transnationality. Added to what will often emerge as practical and methodological problems in biographical writing, the most popular biographical subjects, and those generally favoured by publishers, are often the 'towering national figures' whose significance is defined by their contribution to the particular nation. In over 13,000 published biographies since its first volume in 1966, the ADB corpus reflects this tendency towards the national in biographical writing, at least at a prima facie level. The vast majority of subjects (87.5 per cent) are male,

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