Single and free : female migration to Australia, 1833 - 1837
Rushen, Elizabeth A.2011
Book
"Single & Free is about the scheme administered by the London Emigration Committee to assist free women to migrate to Australia from Great Britain and IreIand. In the 1830s, approximately 3,000 women took advantage of this scheme, representing an enormous influx to the population of the two eastern colonies of Australia. The book analyses the women's motivations and life-experiences, challenging contemporary criticisms that they were the 'sweepings of the gutters'. Many women migrated in family groups, or were joining family and friends in the colonies. They came from a wide cross-section of nineteenth-century society. They were bold and enterprising, and made ideal workers and wives in the new colonies."--author's website.
Main title:
Single and free : female migration to Australia, 1833 - 1837 / Elizabeth Rushen.
Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Imprint:
Spit Junction, Vic. : Anchor Books Australia, 2011.
Collation:
ix, 233 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans, port., facsims ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780980335460 (pbk)
Dewey class:
994.02
Language:
English
Subject:
Seafaring lifeSingle women -- Australia -- HistoryWomen foreign workers -- Australia -- HistoryWomen immigrants -- Australia -- HistoryWomen immigrants -- Australia -- History -- 19th centuryAustralia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th centuryGreat Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
BRN:
308848