A study of the personal literature written in the Eastern Cape in the nineteenth century
- Authors: Young, Cheryl Ann
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Arkwright, Robert Wigram, 1822 -- Diaries , Armstrong, Frances -- Diaries , Bowker, Thomas Holden, 1807-1885 -- Diaries , Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries , Crealock, John North, 1837-1895 -- Diaries , Flanagan, Arthur Stephen -- Diaries , Hall, Henry, 1815 -- Diaries , Merriman, Nathaniel James, 1809-1881 Diaries , Pigot, Sophia, 1804-1881 -- Diaries , Stretch, Charles Lennox, 1797-1882 -- Diaries , Griffith, Patrick Raymond -- Diaries , Clergy -- South Africa -- Diaries , Diaries -- History and criticism , Soldiers -- South Africa -- Diaries , South African diaries -- History and criticism , Women -- South Africa -- Diaries
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2231 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002274 , Arkwright, Robert Wigram, 1822 -- Diaries , Armstrong, Frances -- Diaries , Bowker, Thomas Holden, 1807-1885 -- Diaries , Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries , Crealock, John North, 1837-1895 -- Diaries , Flanagan, Arthur Stephen -- Diaries , Hall, Henry, 1815 -- Diaries , Merriman, Nathaniel James, 1809-1881 Diaries , Pigot, Sophia, 1804-1881 -- Diaries , Stretch, Charles Lennox, 1797-1882 -- Diaries , Griffith, Patrick Raymond -- Diaries , Clergy -- South Africa -- Diaries , Diaries -- History and criticism , Soldiers -- South Africa -- Diaries , South African diaries -- History and criticism , Women -- South Africa -- Diaries
- Description: The evidence of these diaries, all written in the nineteenth century, reveals the heterogeneous nature of early settler society in the Eastern Cape. Generalizations can only be of the most tenuous kind in such a small sample; but women tend to dwell on the domestic, the men on their public lives, the most reticent about their private lives are the soldiers. There is one diary which can be described as personal; the diarists did not regard their diaries as appropriate repositories of their personal triumphs and failures. The perceptions formed in Britain about the land and people of Africa are not drastically modified upon arrival unless the diarist experiences a prolongued contact with either.
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- Date Issued: 1995
- Authors: Young, Cheryl Ann
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Arkwright, Robert Wigram, 1822 -- Diaries , Armstrong, Frances -- Diaries , Bowker, Thomas Holden, 1807-1885 -- Diaries , Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries , Crealock, John North, 1837-1895 -- Diaries , Flanagan, Arthur Stephen -- Diaries , Hall, Henry, 1815 -- Diaries , Merriman, Nathaniel James, 1809-1881 Diaries , Pigot, Sophia, 1804-1881 -- Diaries , Stretch, Charles Lennox, 1797-1882 -- Diaries , Griffith, Patrick Raymond -- Diaries , Clergy -- South Africa -- Diaries , Diaries -- History and criticism , Soldiers -- South Africa -- Diaries , South African diaries -- History and criticism , Women -- South Africa -- Diaries
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2231 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002274 , Arkwright, Robert Wigram, 1822 -- Diaries , Armstrong, Frances -- Diaries , Bowker, Thomas Holden, 1807-1885 -- Diaries , Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries , Crealock, John North, 1837-1895 -- Diaries , Flanagan, Arthur Stephen -- Diaries , Hall, Henry, 1815 -- Diaries , Merriman, Nathaniel James, 1809-1881 Diaries , Pigot, Sophia, 1804-1881 -- Diaries , Stretch, Charles Lennox, 1797-1882 -- Diaries , Griffith, Patrick Raymond -- Diaries , Clergy -- South Africa -- Diaries , Diaries -- History and criticism , Soldiers -- South Africa -- Diaries , South African diaries -- History and criticism , Women -- South Africa -- Diaries
- Description: The evidence of these diaries, all written in the nineteenth century, reveals the heterogeneous nature of early settler society in the Eastern Cape. Generalizations can only be of the most tenuous kind in such a small sample; but women tend to dwell on the domestic, the men on their public lives, the most reticent about their private lives are the soldiers. There is one diary which can be described as personal; the diarists did not regard their diaries as appropriate repositories of their personal triumphs and failures. The perceptions formed in Britain about the land and people of Africa are not drastically modified upon arrival unless the diarist experiences a prolongued contact with either.
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- Date Issued: 1995
The diary of James Brownlee
- Brown, Alastair Graham Kirkwood
- Authors: Brown, Alastair Graham Kirkwood
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries , South Africa -- History -- Frontier Wars, 1811-1878
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2598 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007678 , Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries , South Africa -- History -- Frontier Wars, 1811-1878
- Description: James Brownlee was born in April 1824. He was the second of three sons (and five daughters) born to the missionary John Brownlee, and his colonial born wife Catharine. The importance of James as an historical character is obscured by that of his father and elder brother Charles. James had a varied career which was cut short by his untimely death in March 1851 at the youthful age of twenty-six years and eleven months. We are fortunate that he has left a vivid account of several aspects of the seventh Frontier War in a diary which he kept from April to September 1846. The diary also points to the significance of his family in the history of the Eastern Cape. Thesis, p. 1.
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- Date Issued: 1981
- Authors: Brown, Alastair Graham Kirkwood
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries , South Africa -- History -- Frontier Wars, 1811-1878
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2598 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007678 , Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries , South Africa -- History -- Frontier Wars, 1811-1878
- Description: James Brownlee was born in April 1824. He was the second of three sons (and five daughters) born to the missionary John Brownlee, and his colonial born wife Catharine. The importance of James as an historical character is obscured by that of his father and elder brother Charles. James had a varied career which was cut short by his untimely death in March 1851 at the youthful age of twenty-six years and eleven months. We are fortunate that he has left a vivid account of several aspects of the seventh Frontier War in a diary which he kept from April to September 1846. The diary also points to the significance of his family in the history of the Eastern Cape. Thesis, p. 1.
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- Date Issued: 1981
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