Blue China: Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia by Jan Gothard
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Product Details
Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780522849585
Author: Jan Gothard
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Place: Carlton VIC
Year: 2001
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 312 pages
Period: 19th Century
Book Description
Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library book with external stickers removed. Stamp on imprint page. Wear to book edges and corners, particularly near spine. Interior and binding are still very good. Dust jacket in very good condition with light creasing to edges.
Almost a 100,000 single women emigrated from Britain to the Australian colonies between 1850 and 1900. Contrary to popular assumption that these women were brought to Australia to find husbands, these female immigration schemes were designed to ease the desperate shortage of domestic servants.
Blue China analyses the women's experiences. Beginning with their screening and selection, their shipboard passages, their arrival and transition to domestic employment. Ultimately it shows how these women made their own use of the institutions designed to control them.
Blue China: Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia by Jan Gothard
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