Blue china: Single female migration to colonial Australia
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.
Print Book, Undefined, 1997
Melbourne University Press, Victoria, 1997
9780522849585, 052284958X
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