George Boyle White: surveyor, colonial citizen, diarist: Volume 2 Selected Diaries 1843-1875
- ISBN-10
- 0992533619
- ISBN-13
- 9780992533618
- Category
- Farmers
- Pages
- 710
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-07-03
- Publisher
- Les Dalton
- Authors
- Jenny McCarthy, Les Dalton
Description
A dedicated diarist, White compiled a detailed account of colonial life in the Hunter Valley away from its hub in Sydney. In the privacy of his diary, where ‘an opinion could be given without incurring censure’, commentaries on other colonials could be harsh, while casting himself as imposed upon by family and friends. A nervous public speaker he could, when aroused, write an abrasive letter or stir public controversy. He was fond of reading the classics, filled notebooks with quotations and quoted them in his diaries. Feeling isolated in the antipodes he followed closely news of world events. Perhaps he can best be thought of as a thwarted intellectual living in a colonial backwater. Elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1858, he chaired an inquiry with significant outcomes for land settlement. He was, said a contemporary, not only a historian, and an eyewitness, but “a prominent actor in the parts he recorded”.
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