Giving the indigenous a voice — further thoughts on the poetry of Eliza Hamilton Dunlop

The poetry of the early New South Wales poet, Eliza Hamilton Dunlop is not well known, but it has received a certain amount of critical comment, notably from Elizabeth Webby. This article expands the existing critical discussion, focusing on Dunlop's best known poem, The Aboriginal Mother', and on the fragmentary but pioneering transliteration and translation work that Dunlop performed after she moved to the Hunter Valley in 1840. Dunlop's poetry will be explored, firstly, in relation to the contemporary newspaper debate about the humanity of Indigenous people and, secondly, in relation to the literary traditions of expressive women's poetry and romantic primitivism, both of which influenced her verse

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