Blue china : single female migration to colonial Australia /

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

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Main Author:	Gothard, Jan
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2001 Carlton South, Vic. : 2001
Subjects:	1800 - 1899 1800-1899 19th century British > Australia > History > 19th century Single women > Australia > History > 19th century Women alien labor > Australia > History > 19th century Women foreign workers > Australia > History > 19th century Women immigrants > Australia > History > 19th century Working class women > Australia > History > 19th century British Emigration and immigration History Single women Women foreign workers Women immigrants Working class women Australia > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century Australia
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