Title: Blue China
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.
Subjects: British, Emigration and immigration, History, Single women, Women alien labor, Women immigrants, Working class women, Women foreign workers
Places: Australia
Time periods: 19th century