Blue china
Subtitle: single female migration to colonial Australia
By: Jan Gothard
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Carlton South, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Women immigrants -- Australia -- History -- 19th century; Working class women -- Australia -- History -- 19th century; Single women -- Australia -- History -- 19th century; British -- Australia -- History -- 19th century; Women alien labor -- Australia -- History -- 19th century; Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-282) and index