Blue china
single female migration to colonial Australia
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Author
Publication
2001 - Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, Vic, Australia
Language
English
Word Count
74,500 words, Guess
Page Count
298 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL17042712M
- Internet Archivebluechinasinglef0000goth
- ISBN-10052284958X
- ISBN-139780522849585
- Goodreads4636770
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- LibraryThing2254008
- Library of Congress Control Number2001411489
- OCLC Control Number47810430
Classifications
- LCCJV6347 .G68 2001
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.
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- Blue china: single female migration to colonial Australia
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