Introduction: Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India

Agnew, Éadaoin

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33195-9_1

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 2 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…56 But while colonial society provided women opportunities to unburden themselves from domestic tasks and participate in public life, Eadaoin Agnew argues that their visibility also constrained them. 57 Such participation sparked fresh anxieties about White women's sexuality, conduct and safety. As Philippa Levine notes, race and sex were critically entangled beyond the metropole and, Eileen Scully argues, became wrapped in concerns over White promiscuity and Western prostitution which threatened to undermine colonists' moral authority.…”

Section: The Only Girl In Amoymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Only Girl in Amoy: Gender and American Patriotism in a Nineteenth‐Century Treaty Port

Larkin¹

2022

Gender & History

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In 1861, twenty-year-old Ruth Bradford accompanied her father to the Chinese treaty port of Amoy where he was to serve as American consul. Bradford recorded this trip in a diary kept from her departure from New York until her 1863 return. Drawing upon her diary, this paper explores how Bradford, as the only American woman in Amoy, refined her sense-of-self through interracial and cross-cultural encounters with the settlement's Chinese and British inhabitants. The paper argues that through critical comparison with these communities, Bradford, like other nineteenth-century American women in China, consolidated and articulated her gendered, racial and burgeoning patriotic national identity.Everybody that calls looks so hard at me, as if they wanted to make up their minds just at once as to what I was like, whether they should like me or no, and whether I would 'pass muster'. I am the only American lady here and the only young girl, so I suppose I am an object of some curiosity. Nearly all here are English. Ruth Bradford, 1 May 1862 1 They make as much of me here as if I was the only girl in the world, instead of the only one in Amoy.

show abstract

Section: The Only Girl In Amoymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Only Girl in Amoy: Gender and American Patriotism in a Nineteenth‐Century Treaty Port

Larkin¹

2022

Gender & History

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Introduction: Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India

Cited by 1 publication

References 2 publications

The Only Girl in Amoy: Gender and American Patriotism in a Nineteenth‐Century Treaty Port

The Only Girl in Amoy: Gender and American Patriotism in a Nineteenth‐Century Treaty Port

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About