A study of the personal literature written in the Eastern Cape in the nineteenth century

Young, Cheryl Ann

Title: A study of the personal literature written in the Eastern Cape in the nineteenth century
Creator: Young, Cheryl Ann
ThesisAdvisor: Van Wyk Smith, M
Subject: Arkwright, Robert Wigram, 1822 -- Diaries
Subject: Armstrong, Frances -- Diaries
Subject: Bowker, Thomas Holden, 1807-1885 -- Diaries
Subject: Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries
Subject: Crealock, John North, 1837-1895 -- Diaries
Subject: Flanagan, Arthur Stephen -- Diaries
Subject: Hall, Henry, 1815 -- Diaries
Subject: Merriman, Nathaniel James, 1809-1881 Diaries
Subject: Pigot, Sophia, 1804-1881 -- Diaries
Subject: Stretch, Charles Lennox, 1797-1882 -- Diaries
Subject: Griffith, Patrick Raymond -- Diaries
Subject: Clergy -- South Africa -- Diaries
Subject: Diaries -- History and criticism
Subject: Soldiers -- South Africa -- Diaries
Subject: South African diaries -- History and criticism
Subject: Women -- South Africa -- Diaries
Date: 1995
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:2231
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002274
Identifier: Arkwright, Robert Wigram, 1822 -- Diaries
Identifier: Armstrong, Frances -- Diaries
Identifier: Bowker, Thomas Holden, 1807-1885 -- Diaries
Identifier: Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries
Identifier: Crealock, John North, 1837-1895 -- Diaries
Identifier: Flanagan, Arthur Stephen -- Diaries
Identifier: Hall, Henry, 1815 -- Diaries
Identifier: Merriman, Nathaniel James, 1809-1881 Diaries
Identifier: Pigot, Sophia, 1804-1881 -- Diaries
Identifier: Stretch, Charles Lennox, 1797-1882 -- Diaries
Identifier: Griffith, Patrick Raymond -- Diaries
Identifier: Clergy -- South Africa -- Diaries
Identifier: Diaries -- History and criticism
Identifier: Soldiers -- South Africa -- Diaries
Identifier: South African diaries -- History and criticism
Identifier: 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.
Format: 134 pages, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, English
Language: English
Rights: Young, Cheryl Ann

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