Person
Dunlop, Eliza Hamilton (1796 - 1880)
- Born
- 1796
County Armagh, Ireland - Died
- 20 June 1880
Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Ethnographer
Summary
Eliza Dunlop wrote verses that were published in various magazines. Her husband was a police magistrate and protector of Aborigines at Wollombi and Macdonald River and she took interest in the welfare of the Aborigines, as well as recognizing the literary worth of their songs and poems. Dunlop transliterated several Aboriginal songs and wrote on Aboriginal themes. She worked at preserving Aboriginal vocabularies.
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Chronology
- 1838
- Life event - Settled in Australia
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Book Sections
- Gunson, Niel, 'Dunlop, Eliza Hamilton (1796-1880), lyric writer and student of the Aboriginals' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 1: 1788 - 1850 A-H, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1966), p. 337. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010321b.htm. Details
- Radi, Heather, 'Eliza Dunlop (1796-1880) ethnographer' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537252. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/4081504. Details
- 'Dunlop, Eliza Hamilton (1796-18800620)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-618587. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 1 August 2007