First published in 2008. Women and Empire, 1750-1939 functions to extend significantly the range of the History of Feminism series (co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse), bringing together the histories of British and American women's emancipation, represented in earlier sets, into juxtaposition with histories produced by different kinds of imperial and colonial governments. The alignment of writings from a range of Anglo-imperial contexts reveals the overlapping histories and problems, while foregrounding cultural specificities and contextual inflections of imperialism. The volumes focus on countries, regions, or continents formerly colonized (in part) by Britain: Volume I: Australia, Volume II: New Zealand, Volume III: Africa, Volume IV: India, Volume V: Canada. Perhaps the most novel aspect of this collection is its capacity to highlight the common aspects of the functions of empire in their impact on women and their production of gender, and conversely, to demonstrate the actual specificity of particular regional manifestations. Concerning questions of power, gender, class and race, this new Routledge-Edition Synapse Major Work will be of particular interest to scholars and students of imperialism, colonization, women's history, and women's writing.
Volume IV (India) Part A. Travel, Adventure, and Social Life, 1. Christina Sinclair Bremner, A Month in a Dandi (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1891), pp. 1-9, 106-9
2. Harriot Georgina Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, Our Viceregal Life (London: J. Murray, 1884), pp. 1-8, 11-21, 26-9
3. Nora Beatrice Blyth Gardner, Rifle and Spear with the Rajpoots: Being the Narrative of a Winter's Travel and Sport in Northern India (London: Chatto and Windus, 1895), pp. 49-54, 57
4. Katherine Blanche Guthrie, Life in Western India (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1881), pp. 126-31
5. John Oliver Hobbes (Mrs Pearl Mary Craigie), Imperial India: Letters from the East (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903), pp. 6-11
6. Mrs Robert Moss King, The Diary of A Civilian's Wife in India, 1877-1882 (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1884), pp. 26-33, 38-43, 70-5
Part B. Philanthropy and Missionary Life
7. Miss Abbott 'Miss Abbott in India', Life and Light for Woman, Feb. 1889, 80-2
8. Mrs M. E. Bissell, 'India: Evangelistic Efforts for the Women of India', Life and Light for Women, Apr. 1893, 156-61
9. Mary Carpenter, Six Months in India (London: Longmans, Green, 1868), pp. 52-5, 234-9
10. Mrs Edward S. Hume, 'India. Self-Offering', Life and Light for Woman, Aug. 1891, 394-8
11. Amanda Smith, An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs Amanda Smith, The Colored Evangelist; Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India and Africa, as an Independent Missionary (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1896), pp. 183-95
12. Eva M. Swift, 'To the Girls at Home, From One of the Girls', Life and Light for Woman, Apr. 1889, 181-3
13. Sarah Tucker, South India Sketches (London: J. Nisbet, 1843), pp. 1-17
Part C. The Zenana and Women of Colour
14. Milly Cattell, Behind the Purdah or, the Lives and Legends of our Hindu Sisters (Calcutta and Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1916), pp. 1-11
15. Priscilla Chapman, Hindoo Female Education (London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1839), pp. 34-40
16. Mrs Joseph Cook, 'Gleams of Light in Benares', Life and Light for Woman, Feb. 1893, 60-4
17. Lucy Guinness, 'Ramabai', Woman's Missionary Friend, Aug. 1898, 39-43
18. Mrs Ada Lee, 'A Day in the Zenana', Woman's Missionary Friend, Oct. 1898, 115-16
19. Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati, The High-Caste Hindu Woman (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1901), pp. 40-69
Part D. Military Experiences
20. Ethel St Clair Grimwood, My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1891), pp. 196-214
21. Helen (Douglas) Mackenzie, Life in the Mission, the Camp and the Zenana, or Six Years in India, Vol. II (London: Bentley, 1853), pp. 1-7, 386-8
22. Mrs Dunbar Douglas Muter, My Recollections of the Sepoy Revolt (1857-58) (London: John Long Limited, 1911), pp. 17-21, 32-41
23. Georgiana Theodosia Fitzmoor-Halsey Paget, Camp and Cantonment: A Journal of Life in India in 1857-1859, With Some Account of the Way Thither (London: Longman Green, Roberts and Green, 1865), pp. 151, 153, 155
24. Mary Weitbrecht, Missionary Sketches in North India with References to Recent Events (London: James Nisbet and Company, 1858), pp. 91-101
Part E. Professional Lives in Medicine
25. Winifred Heston, A Bluestocking in India: Her Medical Wards and Messages Home (London: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1910), pp. 9-11, 80-7, 112-16
26. Catharine Grace Loch, A Memoir (London: Henry Frowde, 1905), pp. 36-7, 40-3, 48-51, 76-7
27. Clara A. Swain, A Glimpse of India: Being a Collection of Extracts from the Letters of Dr Clara A. Swain, First Medical Missionary to India of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America (New York: James Pott & Company, 1909), pp. 129-33, 136-40, 150-5
Part F. Literary Accounts of India
28. Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Zenana and Minor Poems (London: Fisher, 1839), pp. 1-17
29. Sarojini Naidu, The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death and the Spring (London: William Heinemann, 1912), pp. 11-13, 22-5, 68-9
30. Miss (Lady Morgan) Owenson, The Missionary: An Indian Tale, Vol. 1 (London: J. J. Stockdale, 1811), pp. 55-63, 208-13
31. Florence Wagentreiber, Reminiscences of the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857 (Lahore: Samuel T. Weton, 1911), pp. 6-27
Volume V (Canada)
A. Imperial Sentiment
1. 'Patriotism versus Cosmopolitanism', 'Fidelis' (Agnes Maule Machar), The Week, 7 Oct. 1886 (716)
2. 'Our Latent Loyalty', Sara Jeannette Duncan, The Week, 26 May 1887 (418)
3. 'Imperial Sentiment in Canada', Sara Jeannette Duncan, Indian Daily News, 7 Oct. 1896; rpt. Sara Jeannette Duncan: Selected Journalism, ed. Thomas E. Tausky (Ottawa: Tecumseh, 1978) (60-2)
4. 'Women of Canada-Historical Sketch' and 'The Home and Social Life of English-Speaking Canadian Women', Lily Dougall, from Women of Canada, Their Life and Work (National Council of Women of Canada, 1900, rpt. NCWC 1975) (5-14) and (15-21)
5. 'Imperial Patriotism', Miss Chitty, Imperial Colonist, Jan. 1904 (5-7) to Feb. 1904 (15-16)
6. 'Women's Share in the Making of Empire', Eveline Mitford, Imperial Colonist, Oct. 1912 (173-5)
7. Britannia (A Play), Edith Lelean Groves (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, 1917)
B. Travel and Ethnography
8. The Diary of Mrs John Graves Simcoe, wife of the first Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, 1792-6 (with notes and a biography by J. Ross Robertson) (Toronto: William Briggs, 1911)
9. 'Condition of the Indian Women', from Winter Studies and Summer Rambles, Anna Brownell Jameson (London: Saunders and Otley, 1838)
10. 'An Uneventful Season', from My Canadian Journal, 1872-1878, Lady Dufferin
11. 'Indian Women', from Women of Canada, Their Life and Work (National Council of Women of Canada, 1900, rpt. 1975)
12. A Social Departure: How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World by Ourselves, Sara Jeannette Duncan (London: Chatto and Windus, 1890)
13. West-Nor-West, Jessie M. Saxby (London: James Nisbet, 1890)
14. The Impressions of Janey Canuck Abroad, Emily Murphy (Toronto, 1902)
15. 'A Pagan in St Paul's Cathedral: Iroquois Poetess' Impressions in London's Cathedral', The Moccasin Maker, E. Pauline Johnson (Toronto: Ryerson, 1913) (139-43)
16. Julia and I in Canada, Anne Topham (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, 1914 [?])
17. My Canada, Elinor Marsden Eliot (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915)
18. My Canadian Memories, S. MacNaughton (New York: Dutton, 1921)
C. Emigration
19. 'Female Emigration', 1850
20. Roughing It in the Bush, or Life in Canada, Susanna Moodie, Introduction (3-7) (London, 1852) (from Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts, ed. Carl Ballstadt (Ottawa: Carleton Univ. Press, 1990)
21. The Canadian Settler's Guide, Catharine Parr Traill, Preface (xvii-xix) and Introductory Remarks (1-13) (Toronto, 1855) (from New Canadian Library, ed. Clara Thomas (Toronto and Montreal: McClelland and Stewart, 1969)
22. What Women Say of the Canadian North-West. A Simple Statement of the Experiences of Women Settled in All Parts of Manitoba and the North-West Territories (Canadian Pacific Railway, 1886): 'Shall the Family Accompany the Settler?' (3-5) and 'Are you Contented?' (43-8)
23. 'The Empire of Larger Hope', Agnes Deans Cameron, Canada West, July 1907 (348-56)
24. 'Canada-the Hope of the World: An English Lady's Opinion of the Opportunities of the West', Mrs Walter Parlby, Calgary Daily Herald supplement 'Why Go to Canada', June 1910
25. A Woman in Canada, Mrs George Cran, Foreword (9-24) and 'The Fly in the Ointment' (247-66) (London: John Milne, 1910)
26. A Home-Help in Canada, 2nd edn, Ella C. Sykes, Preface (vii-xi) and 'Openings in Canada for Educated Women' (222-83) (London: Smith, Elder, 1913)
27. Ventures with the Empire: To Women of the XX Century, Ellen Joyce (printed Warren and Son, Winchester, 1913)
28. Daughters of the Empire, Margaret H. Irwin (reprinted from The British Empire Review)
29. Canada and the British Immigrant, Emily P. Weaver, 'The Woman Canada Needs' (258-75) (London: Religious Tract Society, 1914)
30. 'Women of the West', Elizabeth Mitchell, In Western Canada Before the War: Impressions of Early Twentieth Century Prairie Communities (99-105)
D. Women's Work for Empire: Institutions, Ideology, Citizenship
31. 'The B.P. Girl Guides', Marjorie Jarvis, Everywoman's World, 14 Jan. 1911 (16)
32. 'The Origin of Empire Day: What One Canadian Woman Accomplished on Behalf of Her Country', Mary Morrison, Canadian Courier, 20 May 1911
33. 'Thirty Years of Girls' Friendly Society Imperial Work', Ellen Joyce, Imperial Colonist, Aug. 1912 (138-41) to Sept. 1912 (152-6)
34. 'Marriage and Nationality', Francis Marion Beynon, The Grain Growers' Guide, 30 Sept. 1914 (1108)
35. 'Canadian Women Help the Empire', Lucy Swanton Doyle, Everywoman's World, Nov. 1914 (8, 32)
36. 'Some Thoughts on the Suffrage in Canada', Adelaide M. Plumptre, The New Era in Canada: Essays Dealing with the Upbuilding of the Canadian Commonwealth, ed. J. O. Miller (London: Dent, 1917) (303-30)
37. 'Naturalization', Nellie L. McClung, Western Home Monthly, Oct. 1921 (3)
38. 'The School Library in Alberta', Emily Murphy, Canada Monthly
39. 'The Attainment of an Ideal', The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire: Golden Jubilee 1900-1950 (IODE, 1950)
Biography
Cheryl Cassidy is Professor in the department of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University, USA. Her publications include Dying in the Light: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Female Obituaries. Caroline Daley is Associate Professor in the department of History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Leisure & Pleasure: Reshaping & Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960; Girls and Women, Men and Boys: Gender in Taradale 1886-1930; and co-editor of The Gendered Kiwi and Suffrage & Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives. Elizabeth Dimock is Honorary Research Associate & Seminar Convenor, African Research Institute, & History Program, Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia. Susan K Martin is an Associate Professor in the English program at La Trobe University, Australia. She is co-author of Reading the Garden: the Settlement of Australia, and co-editor of Green Pens: an Anthology of Australian Garden Writing.
