An infant phenomenon in colonial Australia--the case of Anna Maria Quinn, 1854-1858.

The Historian | March 22, 2009| | Copyright

THIS ARTICLE INVESTIGATES the cultural and scientific discourses that informed journalistic commentary about a young child actor as a key to understanding conceptions of the human mind in the 1850s. The publicity about Anna Maria Quinn (1848-1920), one of the most significant child players of Shakespeare ever to appear in colonial Australia, suggests a heightening awareness of childhood in mid-nineteenth-century Australia. It involved, to some degree, not only the recognition of the infant prodigy as a child, but also the construction of a loose consensus of what defined ...

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