Blue China: Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia“Women are like blue china: beautiful and fragile, but worthless once damaged or broken. “ —Unidentified Canadian emigrationist, writing in the 1890s. Between 1860 and 1900, nearly 100,000 single working-class women emigrated from Britain to the Australian colonies. They were the largest single category of immigrants to be given colonial government assistance. The book is a study of Australian immigration policy generally. Its strength lies in the breadth of this research. While showing how individual colonies differed in their approach to female immigration, it also highlights the common factors in the female immigrants’ experiences, and stories of individual women’s experiences add further life and color to a very accessible text. |
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Emigrating Women | 1 |
Manchester Cottons and Bermondsey Boots | 18 |
A reward for good conduct not banishment | 51 |
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Adelaide Agent-General amongst Annual Report April arrival Australian colonies BLFES Board of Immigration Brisbane Britain British BWEA Caroline Caroline Chisholm CLEC colonial governments Colonial Secretary colonists colony's deck depot despatched domestic servants domestic service Ellen Joyce emigrant vessels Emigration Society emigrationists employers employment English & Welsh female emigrants Female Male Female female migration free passage girls government-assisted immigrants Governor of Victoria gration Henry Jordan Ibid immi Immigration Agent inquiry Irish Irish women journal Jumna labour ladies London Malcolm Fraser Male Female Male matron Melbourne ment middle-class women moral nominated NSW VPLA number of single Office organisation passengers Perth poop Qld VPLA reception Rye's Scottish Select Committee selection agents ship shipboard protection single female immigrants single immigrant women single women sister South Australia South Wales SRNSW SROWA surgeon surgeon-superintendent Sydney Tasmania travellers Victoria wages Western Australia woman Women's Emigration working-class women young women