Sir George Gipps

With him she had four more children (or four who survived). A great-grand-daughter, Margaret De Salis , has published on ED . After their emigration to Australia David Dunlop held positions as Police Magistrate and...

She won the confidence of the Aboriginal elders, particularly the chief Boni . At the same time she held a prominent place in a local literary circle of settlers determined to preserve their ties with...

CC 's appeal to Lady Gipps was the first among many to Sydney's established citizenry. Within a few months she had obtained two interviews with Governor Gipps and supportive coverage from the Sydney Morning Herald.

It does not appear that ED had engaged directly in politics before the newspaper attacks on her poem The Aboriginal Mother in October 1841, which were clearly associated with opposition to her husband's campaign, in...

The poem is consciously political, implicitly enlisted in support of the new Governor, Sir George Gipps , who strove to make treatment of Aboriginals less inhumane, and those who worked with him, including David Dunlop