Chapter 5: Marriage among the flowers
p89 ‘There is certainly . . .’ from Edith Coleman, 1936, ‘Marriage among the flowers’, The Australian Woman’s Mirror, 1 September, p19. pp91–92 Much of this reconstruction is based on Edith Coleman [E.C.] 1931, ‘Thirty years of motoring in Australia: A woman looks back’, The Age, 1 August, p8, as well as newspaper accounts of the Marysville expedition (19 November 1904) and early car events and photos. John Thomson recalls Walsham being built in 1902/03. p94 ‘The grassy flats . . .’ Edith Coleman [E.C.] 1926, ‘The Promise of Spring: Healesville’, The Age, 26 July, p14. p95 ‘Today a run . . .’ Coleman, 1931, ‘Thirty years’. pp95–96 ‘It was a . . .’ Alan D. Mickle, Healesville MS8697, Box 2406/6 La Trobe Collection, SLV, quoted in Tom Griffiths, 2001, Forests of Ash (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge) p121. p97 ‘Carbine and Collier Two-Speed Cycle Company Ltd’, The Champion, 7 November 1896, p490. p98 ‘The motorcycle has . . .’ Geelong Advertiser, 1 June 1897, p2. Edith notes that James bought the third motorcycle for himself in ‘Thirty years’. ‘The motor-cycle . . .’ is from ‘Wheel notes’, The Australasian, 30 November 1901, p22. p99 ‘Cycling notes’, Punch, 20 August 1903, p30. ‘It lives in . . .’ Coleman, 1931, ‘Thirty years’. ‘disrespect for motors . . .’ letter from Edith Coleman to Rica Sandiland, 31 December 1931, Rica Erickson Papers SLWA. p100 ‘If I call . . .’ Annie Dillard quoted in Diana Saverin, 2015, ‘The Thoreau of the Suburbs’, The Atlantic, 5 February. Edward J. Banfield, 1911, My tropic isle (T. Fisher Unwin: London) is dedicated ‘To my wife’. Bertha Banfield features in photos in E. J. Banfield, 1925, Last Leaves from Dunk Island (Angus and Robertson: Sydney) which she edited and published after his death. Comments about Donald Macdonald from Tom Griffiths, 1989, ‘The natural history of Melbourne: The culture of nature writing in Victoria, 1880–1945’, Australian Historical Studies, 23, p356. Eleanor Alliston’s nature writing discussed in C. A. Cranston, 2002, ‘Islands’ in C. A. Cranston and Robert Zeller (eds) The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and Their Writers (Rodopi: Amsterdam) pp219–260. p101 ‘It was largely . . .’ Eleanor Alliston, 1984, Island Affair (Greenhouse Publications: Elwood) p63. See also Escape to an Island, 1966 (Heinemann: Melbourne). ‘In 1903 there . . .’ Coleman, 1931, ‘Thirty years’. ‘The smell of . . .’ quoted in Susan Priestly (1983) Crown of the Road: The Story of the RACV (Macmillan: South Melbourne). p102 ‘Dorothy drove me . . .’ letter from Edith Coleman to Rica Sandilands, 18 October 1932, SLWA. Purchase of l’Éclair cars from ‘Motor Notes’, Punch, 12 May 1904, p34, see also ‘Motor Notes’ Table Talk, 3 March 1904, p23. ‘good, bad and execrable’ and ‘For the motoring . . .’ from Coleman, 1931, ‘Thirty years’. p104 ‘No Greek or . . .’ from Coleman, 1931, ‘Thirty years’. ‘the public to . . .’ and ‘lamps, hood or . . .’ from ‘Thirtieth anniversary of the First Sydney to Melbourne Motor Car Race’, Shepparton Advertiser, 6 February 1935, p2. ‘The return was . . .’ from Coleman, 1931, ‘Thirty years’. p105 ‘One by one . . .’ ‘Great Motor Contest’, The Australian Star, 20 November 1905, p6. p106 Motoring statistics from ‘Thirtieth anniversary’, Shepparton Advertiser, 1935. ‘Those who have . . .’ ‘Mr. J. G. Coleman on Motoring in Great Britain’, The Australian Motorist, 1 September 1930, p42. p107 ‘You did not . . .’ letter from M. J. Godfery to Edith Coleman, 4 October 1933, John Thomson collection. ‘Daddy does the . . .’ Edith Coleman to Rica Sandiland, 12 November 1931, SLWA. p108 ‘Other members of . . .’ Edith Coleman, 1929, ‘A Garden Wilderness’, The Argus, 3 August, p3. The Australian Handbook, 1896 (Gordon and Gotch: London) p262. p109 Flyer for Mason’s Paddock, Blackburn (1919) and Subdivision plan for Blackburn Park, Haughton Collection, SLV, http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/ 169710 and 167982 [Last accessed 2.1.17]. pp111–113 Extract from Edith Coleman [E. C. Walsham] 1936, ‘Fishy, maybe, but what a father!’, The Australian Woman’s Mirror, 15 December, pp17, 54.
Chapter 6: Maternal devotion
p115 ‘With the seething . . .’ from Edith Coleman, 1938, ‘The huntsman spider (Isopeda immanis): Courtship, egg-laying and emergence of spiderlings’, The Australian Zoologist, 9, pp 180–190. pp117–118 This reconstruction is based on the recollections of Loris Peggie, Edith’s papers on mistletoe, photos of Blackburn in Robin da Costa, 1978. Blackburn–A picturesque history (Pioneer Design
