X marks the spot women writers map the Empire for British children, 1790-1895 / Megan A. Norcia.

Contents Introduction: mapping imperial hierarchies and ruling the world -- The dysfunctional "family of man": Mary Anne Venning and Barbara Hofland classify human races in pre-darwinian primers -- Place settings at the imperial dinner party: hierarchies of consumption in the works of Favell Lee Mortimer, Sarah Lee, and Priscilla Wakefield -- Terra incognita: the gendering of geographic experience in the works of Barbara Hofland, Priscilla Wakefield, Mary H.C. Legh, Lucy Wilson, Mrs. E. Burrows, and Maria Hack -- "Prisoners in its spatial matrix"? resisting imperial geography in thirdspace -- Conclusion: contextualizing archival recovery.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-254) and index.
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LCCN 2009051800
ISBN9780821419076 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780821443538 (ebook)

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