'Mrs Bon's verandah full of Aboriginals': : race, class, gender and friendship

Resource Information

The work 'Mrs Bon's verandah full of Aboriginals': : race, class, gender and friendship represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

'Mrs Bon's verandah full of Aboriginals': : race, class, gender and friendship

Title remainder

race, class, gender and friendship

Statement of responsibility

Liz Reed

Creator

• Reed, Liz

Subject

• Barak, William, Yarra Yarra chief, approximately 1825-1903
• Bon, Anne Fraser, 1838-1936
• Coranderrk Aboriginal Station (Vic.)
• Politics and Government - Political action - Activism
• Race relations
• Race relations - Attitudes
• Race relations - Racism
• Settlement and contacts - Government settlements, reserves
• Sex relations
• Bamfield, Thomas, approximately 1844-1893

Language

eng

Summary

Investigation of Anne Fraser Bon's relationship with Aboriginal people in Victoria from the 1860s to 1936, her support for their political advocacy and her friendships; Bon's friendship with William Barak, Thomas Bamfield and others and responses by their male establishment; includes brief discussion of sexual relationships between 'white' women and Aboriginal men in colonial Australia; treatment of Aboriginal people at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station

Is part of

• History Australia : Journal of the Australian Historical Association

Cataloging source

AIAS

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction