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| ====== Character, Possessions, Photos====== | ====== Character, Possessions, Photos, Death ====== |
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| TLM-P's actions and possessions as well as his writings reveal much about his character, and this section gives additional hints about what he was like. | TLM-P's actions and possessions as well as his writings reveal much about his character, and this section gives additional hints about what he was like. |
| Historian Angela Woollacott has argued, using TLM-P as a case study, that the concept of manhood in the colonies was intertwined with acceptance of frontier violence. She unquestioningly accepts Rosa Praed's version of events despite Rosa never quite making the transition from being a novelist to that of an accurate memoirist. She also attributes TLM-P's memoir of the Hornet Bank massacre to Rosa. Nevertheless, her argument, supported by other historians, is worth considering: that 'frontier violence was accepted within evolving definitions of manhood and hence political responsibility ... when we link frontier violence to gendered authority, mid-nineteenth century ideas of manhood might look a little less peaceable and restrained'.((Angela Woollacott, 'Frontier Violence and Settler Manhood', //History Australia//, 6:1, 2009, pp.11.1-11.15. See also, Angela Woollacott, 'Manly authority, employing non-white labour, and frontier violence 1830s-1860s', //Journal of Australian Colonial History//, Vol. 15, 2013, pp.23-42. [[https://search-informit-com-au.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au/documentSummary;dn=617722819166722;res=IELAPA> ISSN: 1441-0370]])) | Historian Angela Woollacott has argued, using TLM-P as a case study, that the concept of manhood in the colonies was intertwined with acceptance of frontier violence. She unquestioningly accepts Rosa Praed's version of events despite Rosa never quite making the transition from being a novelist to that of an accurate memoirist. She also attributes TLM-P's memoir of the Hornet Bank massacre to Rosa. Nevertheless, her argument, supported by other historians, is worth considering: that 'frontier violence was accepted within evolving definitions of manhood and hence political responsibility ... when we link frontier violence to gendered authority, mid-nineteenth century ideas of manhood might look a little less peaceable and restrained'.((Angela Woollacott, 'Frontier Violence and Settler Manhood', //History Australia//, 6:1, 2009, pp.11.1-11.15. See also, Angela Woollacott, 'Manly authority, employing non-white labour, and frontier violence 1830s-1860s', //Journal of Australian Colonial History//, Vol. 15, 2013, pp.23-42. [[https://search-informit-com-au.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au/documentSummary;dn=617722819166722;res=IELAPA> ISSN: 1441-0370]])) |
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| TLM-P was too complicated to be a satisfactory stock figure in any historical argument, though it would be possible to mount a case that his identification with royalty, insistence on a 'courtly' bearing and even his art collection that he bequeathed to the public, was at least partly motivated by a desire to assert himself as a civilised man, and to distance himself from his part in the grim reality of wrenching land from its traditional owners. | TLM-P was too complicated to be a satisfactory stock figure in any historical argument, though it would be possible to mount a case that his identification with royalty, insistence on a 'courtly' bearing and even his art collection that he bequeathed to the public, was at least partly motivated by a desire to assert himself as a civilised man, and to distance himself from his part in the grim reality of wrenching land from its traditional owners.\\ |
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| | ==== Death ==== |
| | As shown in the following death certificate, TLM-P died on New Year's Eve in 1892 at 'Whitecliffe', Albion, Brisbane. He was suffering from stomach cancer and, with a lack of effective pain relief, like so many others at the time, a contributing factor to his death was 'exhaustion'.\\ |
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