The Captive White Woman of Gipps Land: In Pursuit of the Legend

by Julie Carr

The reverberations of that rumour--and of the actions it precipitated--continue to this day.
In the mid-1840s, as Port Phillip developed into a burgeoning provincial centre, the White Woman rumour was deployed to serve numerous political and cultural ends. Sensationalist speculation in the colonial press about a white woman held in thrall by 'ruthless savages' fuelled anti-Aboriginal attitudes and provided justification for the taking of Kurnai...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052284930X
• ISBN13: 9780522849301
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.6"