Blue china : single female migration to colonial Australia / Jan Gothard
- Bib ID:
- 1010406
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gothard, Janice
- Description:
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- Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2001
- xiii, 298 p. : ill., charts ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 052284958X
- Summary:
-
Almost a hundred thousand single women emigrated from Britain to the Australian colonies between 1850 and 1900. The popular assumption is that these women went to find husbands, but this text establishes that the female emigration schemes were devised to ease the shortage of domestic servants.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Emigrating Women
- 2. Manchester Cottons and Bermondsey Boots
- 3. 'A reward for good conduct, not banishment for bad'
- 4. 'A season of industry'
- 5. 'Gliding over the great waves'
- 6. 'No worse than might have been expected'
- 7. A Compromise with Conscience
- 8. 'Free agents these domestic damsels...'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Subject:
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