Irish Women in Colonial Australia edited by Trevor McClaughlin

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly to front cover right tail corner, now protected with book tape. Foxing to foredges. Some denting to right foredge. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker.

Ireland provided the majority of female convicts for the first forty years of the penal colony. Irish women also made up a significant proportion of assisted and free immigrants throughout the nineteenth century. The nine essays in this book provide insight into the experience of Irish women in Australia, from murderers and orphans, workers and the wealthy, country maids and slum dwellers. Who were these women? Why did they come here? Moreover, what did they make of their lives in the raw, new world so different from the world they left behind?