Penny Russell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Penny Russell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Penny |
| FAMILY NAME | Russell |
| SIGNATURE | RUSSELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume IV examines the intersections of modernity and human sexuality through the forces, ideas, and events that have shaped the modern world. Through eighteen chapters, this volume examines connections between sexuality and the defining forces of modern global history including capitalism, colonialism, migration, consumerism, and war; sexuality in modern literature and print media; sexuality in dictatorships and democracies; and cultural changes…
Finding Eliza
Little of Eliza Fraser’s life was spent in Australia, but her name has become part of its colonised landscape. So, too, has her story. Shipwrecked off the coast of Australia in 1836, she lived for
Honourable Intentions?
Honourable Intentions
Angela Woollacott. Settler Society in the Australian Colonies
In Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture, Angela Woollacott writes an ambitiously integrated history. She stitches microhistories of individuals and families across a broad canvas of British imperial expansion. She draws connections between political, cultural, social, and intimate aspects of Australian settler society. She weaves questions of gender into what is conventionally told as a masculine politi…
Travelling steerage
This article outlines the purpose and approach to be pursued in a new project, a history of Sydney written from the point of view of a middle-class Congregationalist family, the Thompsons, who emigrated from London in 1834. Such a history allows us to explore class, kin and community in global as well as local contexts, to understand the intersections of public and private life and to gain new insight into class formation in the mid-nineteenth ce…
The Ambitions of Jane Franklin
Obsession. Revenge. Ambition. Terms like these increasingly attach to Jane, Lady Franklin (1791–1875) in recent accounts of her life. A sentimental heroine in the Victorian era, lauded for her effo
A Tale of Ambition and Unrealised Hope
Girl in a Red Dress
This article seeks to do the impossible: to unsettle the fixity of fictions that have been so long in circulation that they have taken on the appearance and solidity of fact. Mathinna, the Aboriginal girl who lived at Government House under the care of Lady Franklin in the early 1840s but was abandoned at the Orphan School when the Franklins returned to England a few years later, is an elusive historical subject. Stories and images of Mathinna ha…
Savage or Civilised
In colonial Australia manners marked the difference between savagery and civilisation, between vulgarity and refinement. Colonists recoiled in shock and confusion at the customs of Indigenous Australians, but they also sensed the savagery lurking in white society. Manners mattered, to individuals and to society. Original and compelling, Savage or Civilised? is the story of behaviour, respect and manners in colonial Australia
Exploring historical thinking and agency with undergraduate history students
Recent research on historical thinking has instigated important disciplinary conversations and changes in pedagogical practice. They have, however, largely focused on the primary and secondary school sector, highlighting the gap in corresponding research into tertiary education. It is important to look at the experiences of history students at tertiary level, to assess the impact of perceptions and practices on graduate employment outcomes and tr…
Transnational Lives
In the mid-eighteenth century, the son of an Odawa woman and a French man allied himself with Indians and the French in the North American Great Lakes area to combat British power. Later — according to the multiple legends of his life — he defended the British, combated rebellious American colonists, raised Indian warriors to fight against the expanding American republic and then settled in Wisconsin, where he and his family are known as the firs…
Historical Thinking in Higher Education
This article provides an introduction to the results of a nationwide scoping study of student and staff perceptions of the nature and roles of historical thinking. In 2008–09, over 1400 students and 50 staff from 12 universities around Australia completed interviews and questionnaires. This research report examines student and staff responses to the second questionnaire item, asking for an assessment of the connection between particular activitie…
Unhomely moments’
This article explores the multiple connections between the colonisation of Australia in the nineteenth century and the formation of domestic worlds as the site for ‘civilising’ children. The affective bonds of family were often regarded as an indispensable element in the nurture and training of children, but where the bonds of ‘natural affection’ seemed to pose an obstacle to the civilising project, they were ruthlessly severed. Keywords: Civilis…
Sex in History
Transnational Ties
Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination. In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, an eclectic mix of scholars—historians, literary critics, and museologists—trace the flow of people that helped shape Australia’s distinctive character and the flow of ideas that connected Australians to a global community of thought. It shows how biography, and the st…
A Victorian Woman's Place
Reviewed by: A Victorian Woman’s Place: Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century Penny Russell (bio) A Victorian Woman’s Place: Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century, by Simon Morgan; pp. x + 270. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007, £47.50, $74.95. The main title of Simon Morgan’s book seems to imply a conventional study of Victorian middle-class femininity. The subtitle complicates this impression and promises something more—w…
Transnational Ties
Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination. In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, an eclectic mix of scholars-historians, literary critics, and museologists-trace the flow of people that helped shape Australia's distinctive character and the flow of ideas that connected
Generations of Feminist Studies Conference, 28–30 June 2005, Art Gallery of South Australia
In June 2005, as all readers of this journal well know, Australian Feminist Studies took flight from its Adelaide home, where it had been nurtured for 20 years by editor Susan Magarey and review ed
Wife Stories
Why do women marry? God knows, unless it be that like the great Wallenstein they do not find scope enough for their Genius and qualities in an easy life" (qtd. in Christianson 284). So Jane Welsh Carlyle lamented to John Forster in September 1840, after fourteen years of marriage to a cantankerous and demanding historian. Her ironic question and answer turned on its head the conventional wisdom that women found in marriage their protection, secur…
Theme
A woman of the future? feminism and conservatism in colonial New South Wales
This article discusses Lady Jersey's brief sojourn in New South Wales in 1891-92, as the wife of the colonial governor. In the context of colonial anxieties and hopes about the contemporary women's movement, Lady Jersey's aristocratic confidence and imperial authority gave her the appearance of an ‘Advanced Woman’. A published writer and confident public speaker before she arrived in the colony, Lady Jersey took a keen interest in local political…
Books
Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia. Edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew Reeves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 344. $49.95 cloth. Colonial Consorts: The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839–1900. By Marguerite Hancock. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii + 324. $59.95 cloth. Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist. By Patricia Clar…
The Brash Colonial
In colonial Australia, the meanings of politeness were continually contested. The urban centres held a world of strangers of dubious origin. Social edifices erected to deal with the question of who was `in Society' became ever more elaborate and unstable. To the elite, English manners represented a last bastion of civilisation in a wilderness of social disintegration. To self-made Australians, seeking acceptance rather than exclusion, they were a…
Books
Creating Australia: Changing Australian History. Edited by Wayne Hudson and Geoffrey Bolton. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997. Pp. xiii + 187. $24.95 paper. The Europeans in Australia: A History, volume 1, The Beginning. By Alan Atkinson. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997. Pp. xviii + 429. $49.95 cloth. Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship. By John Chesterman and Brian Galligan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1…
Transnational Ties
Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination. In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, an eclectic mix of scholars-historians, literary critics, and museologists-trace the flow of people that helped shape Australia's distinctive character and the flow of ideas that connected
Finding Eliza
Little of Eliza Fraser’s life was spent in Australia, but her name has become part of its colonised landscape. So, too, has her story. Shipwrecked off the coast of Australia in 1836, she lived for
Wife Stories
Why do women marry? God knows, unless it be that like the great Wallenstein they do not find scope enough for their Genius and qualities in an easy life" (qtd. in Christianson 284). So Jane Welsh Carlyle lamented to John Forster in September 1840, after fourteen years of marriage to a cantankerous and demanding historian. Her ironic question and answer turned on its head the conventional wisdom that women found in marriage their protection, secur…
The Brash Colonial
In colonial Australia, the meanings of politeness were continually contested. The urban centres held a world of strangers of dubious origin. Social edifices erected to deal with the question of who was `in Society' became ever more elaborate and unstable. To the elite, English manners represented a last bastion of civilisation in a wilderness of social disintegration. To self-made Australians, seeking acceptance rather than exclusion, they were a…
The Allure of the Nile
When Jane, Lady Franklin, set off on a voyage up the Nile as far as the Second Cataract, she abandoned many of the prescriptions of genteel feminine behaviour. Yet she dreaded social condemnation, and shrank from being thought ‘masculine’. Her diary of the voyage represents her complex negotiation of two alternative identities, as authoritative, imperialist traveller and as self‐conscious, vulnerable lady. These identities were irreconcilable, an…
Martin Luther King, Jr., as Scholar
Journal Article Martin Luther King, Jr., as Scholar: A Reexamination of His Theological Writings Get access Clayborne Carson, Clayborne Carson senior editor and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers project Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter Holloran, Peter Holloran editorial assistant on the project Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ralph E. Luker, Ralph…
Historical Thinking in Higher Education
This article provides an introduction to the results of a nationwide scoping study of student and staff perceptions of the nature and roles of historical thinking. In 2008–09, over 1400 students and 50 staff from 12 universities around Australia completed interviews and questionnaires. This research report examines student and staff responses to the second questionnaire item, asking for an assessment of the connection between particular activitie…
Forbetterand forworse
Girl in a Red Dress
This article seeks to do the impossible: to unsettle the fixity of fictions that have been so long in circulation that they have taken on the appearance and solidity of fact. Mathinna, the Aboriginal girl who lived at Government House under the care of Lady Franklin in the early 1840s but was abandoned at the Orphan School when the Franklins returned to England a few years later, is an elusive historical subject. Stories and images of Mathinna ha…
Unhomely moments’
This article explores the multiple connections between the colonisation of Australia in the nineteenth century and the formation of domestic worlds as the site for ‘civilising’ children. The affective bonds of family were often regarded as an indispensable element in the nurture and training of children, but where the bonds of ‘natural affection’ seemed to pose an obstacle to the civilising project, they were ruthlessly severed. Keywords: Civilis…
Sex in History
Organisers’ report
Forbetterand forworse
Destined to Be Wives. The Sisters of Beatrice Webb
Martin Luther King, Jr., as Scholar
Journal Article Martin Luther King, Jr., as Scholar: A Reexamination of His Theological Writings Get access Clayborne Carson, Clayborne Carson senior editor and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers project Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter Holloran, Peter Holloran editorial assistant on the project Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ralph E. Luker, Ralph…
Servant and Master
Stepping Out of History
Introduction Convict wives 1787--1820 Immigrant brides 1820--1840 The search for independence 1840--1860 Women in a male world 1860--1880 The call to the factory 1880--1900 Women's mobilisation in peace and war 1900--1920 A woman's work is never done 1920--1940 From the military to motherhood 1940--1960 Campaigns for rights and equality 1960--1980
Quest for grace
The emergence of feminism in Australia, as elsewhere, was grounded in personal experience. This paper explores the small and private rebellion of one woman against fraternal authority, an episode that took place before women had access to a feminist ideology with which to express their feelings of oppression. It argues that an examination of the tissue of domestic life – in this instance, a tiff about piano-playing – can be read at a number of le…
A Wish of Distinction
Woman suffrage in australia
That Dangerous and Persuasive Women
Her excellency’
The Allure of the Nile
When Jane, Lady Franklin, set off on a voyage up the Nile as far as the Second Cataract, she abandoned many of the prescriptions of genteel feminine behaviour. Yet she dreaded social condemnation, and shrank from being thought ‘masculine’. Her diary of the voyage represents her complex negotiation of two alternative identities, as authoritative, imperialist traveller and as self‐conscious, vulnerable lady. These identities were irreconcilable, an…
A Wish of Distinction
Freedom Bound I
Books
Creating Australia: Changing Australian History. Edited by Wayne Hudson and Geoffrey Bolton. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997. Pp. xiii + 187. $24.95 paper. The Europeans in Australia: A History, volume 1, The Beginning. By Alan Atkinson. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997. Pp. xviii + 429. $49.95 cloth. Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship. By John Chesterman and Brian Galligan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1…
Books
Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia. Edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew Reeves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 344. $49.95 cloth. Colonial Consorts: The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839–1900. By Marguerite Hancock. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii + 324. $59.95 cloth. Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist. By Patricia Clar…
The Brash Colonial
In colonial Australia, the meanings of politeness were continually contested. The urban centres held a world of strangers of dubious origin. Social edifices erected to deal with the question of who was `in Society' became ever more elaborate and unstable. To the elite, English manners represented a last bastion of civilisation in a wilderness of social disintegration. To self-made Australians, seeking acceptance rather than exclusion, they were a…
Theme
A woman of the future? feminism and conservatism in colonial New South Wales
This article discusses Lady Jersey's brief sojourn in New South Wales in 1891-92, as the wife of the colonial governor. In the context of colonial anxieties and hopes about the contemporary women's movement, Lady Jersey's aristocratic confidence and imperial authority gave her the appearance of an ‘Advanced Woman’. A published writer and confident public speaker before she arrived in the colony, Lady Jersey took a keen interest in local political…
Wife Stories
Why do women marry? God knows, unless it be that like the great Wallenstein they do not find scope enough for their Genius and qualities in an easy life" (qtd. in Christianson 284). So Jane Welsh Carlyle lamented to John Forster in September 1840, after fourteen years of marriage to a cantankerous and demanding historian. Her ironic question and answer turned on its head the conventional wisdom that women found in marriage their protection, secur…
Generations of Feminist Studies Conference, 28–30 June 2005, Art Gallery of South Australia
In June 2005, as all readers of this journal well know, Australian Feminist Studies took flight from its Adelaide home, where it had been nurtured for 20 years by editor Susan Magarey and review ed
Transnational Ties
Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination. In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, an eclectic mix of scholars—historians, literary critics, and museologists—trace the flow of people that helped shape Australia’s distinctive character and the flow of ideas that connected Australians to a global community of thought. It shows how biography, and the st…
A Victorian Woman's Place
Reviewed by: A Victorian Woman’s Place: Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century Penny Russell (bio) A Victorian Woman’s Place: Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century, by Simon Morgan; pp. x + 270. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007, £47.50, $74.95. The main title of Simon Morgan’s book seems to imply a conventional study of Victorian middle-class femininity. The subtitle complicates this impression and promises something more—w…
Transnational Ties
Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination. In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, an eclectic mix of scholars-historians, literary critics, and museologists-trace the flow of people that helped shape Australia's distinctive character and the flow of ideas that connected
Historical Thinking in Higher Education
This article provides an introduction to the results of a nationwide scoping study of student and staff perceptions of the nature and roles of historical thinking. In 2008–09, over 1400 students and 50 staff from 12 universities around Australia completed interviews and questionnaires. This research report examines student and staff responses to the second questionnaire item, asking for an assessment of the connection between particular activitie…
Sociology (31 works) · Political science (25 works) · History (24 works) · Law (22 works) · Australian History and Society (18 works) · History (17 works) · Art (14 works) · Colonialism (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Politics (10 works)