Portia Robinson

Portia Robinson {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} ({{née}} Ferguson; 26 August 1926 – 3 February 2023){{Cite web |date=2023-02-11 |title=Portia Robinson AM PhD death notice |url=https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/471405/portia-robinson-am-phd/?r=https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/ |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=Sydney Morning Herald}} was an Australian historian.{{cite journal|last1=Hocking|first1=Jenny|last2=Donati|first2=Laura|date=2016|title=Obscured but not Obscure: How History Ignored the Remarkable Story of Sarah Wills Howe|url=https://researchmgt.monash.edu/ws/portalfiles/portal/31495046/31414285_oa.pdf|journal=The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia|volume=7|issue=2}} She was an associate professor at Macquarie University,{{Cite news|last=Miller|first=Gretchen|date=1998-04-09|title=Most convicts made good, says historian|pages=2|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|issn=0312-6315|id={{ProQuest|363506427}}}}{{cite news|last1=Maslen|first1=Geoffrey|date=11 June 1989|title=In praise of convict women|page=19|work=The Canberra Times|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122269190}} retiring in 1998.{{Cite web|title=Newsletter 27|url=https://cdn.atria.nl/ezines/web/IFRWH/1998-2002/historians/news_from_national_committees27.htm|publisher=International Federation for Research in Women's History}} Robinson was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 "[f]or service to education, particularly in the field of Australian colonial history".{{cite news|date=26 January 1993|title=Australia Day Honours|volume=67|page=4|newspaper=The Canberra Times|issue=21,105|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126971869|via=National Library of Australia}}

Works

{{Cite book|last=Robinson|first=Portia|title=The Hatch and Brood of Time: A Study of the First Generation of Native-Born White Australians, 1788–1828|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1985|isbn=0-19-554569-9|location=Melbourne|oclc=12707557}}Reviews of The Hatch and Brood of Time:
{{Cite journal|last=Burroughs|first=Peter|date=June 1987|title=none|journal=The American Historical Review|language=en|volume=92|issue=3|pages=728–729|doi=10.1086/ahr/92.3.728|issn=1937-5239}}
{{Cite journal|last=Fauve-Chamoux|first=Antoinette|date=1989|title=Review of The Hatch and Brood of Time|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/adh_0066-2062_1989_num_1988_1_1726_t1_0421_0000_1|journal=Annales de démographie historique|volume=1988|issue=1|pages=421–422}}
{{cite journal|date=April 1986|title=none|journal=Australian Journal of Politics & History|volume=32|issue=1|pages=119–164|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8497.1986.tb00345.x}}
{{Cite book|last=Robinson|first=Portia|title=The Women of Botany Bay: A Reinterpretation of the Role of Women in the Origins of Australian Society|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1993|isbn=0-14-014698-9|oclc=29359023}}Reviews of The Women of Botany Bay:
{{Cite journal|last=Smith|first=Bonnie G.|date=April 1997|title=The Struggle for Australian History|journal=Gender & History|language=en|volume=9|issue=1|pages=139–143|doi=10.1111/1468-0424.00049|issn=0953-5233}}
{{Cite journal|last=Naidis|first=Mark|date=April 1991|title=none|journal=The American Historical Review|language=en|volume=96|issue=2|pages=588–589|doi=10.1086/ahr/96.2.588|issn=1937-5239}}

References

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Category:Members of the Order of Australia

Category:20th-century Australian women