Girl in a Red Dress
Inventions of Mathinna
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12344482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Penny Russell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 341-362 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1031-461X • E-ISSN: 1940-5049 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1031461x.2012.706627 |
| OpenAlex | W2023546584 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
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 have circulated for a century and a half, drawing sustenance from each other to entrench powerful sentimental tropes about her life. The article argues that we should be wary about the origins of these sentimental stories, and about their capacity to be reworked into acts of historical recovery
Aesthetics · Art · Circulation (fluid dynamics · Developmental psychology · Girl · Literature · Political science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Sustenance · Engineering · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Irish and British Studies · Law · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |