Blue China
by Jan Gothard
Popularity 1
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.
BritishEmigration and immigrationHistorySingle womenWomen alien laborWomen immigrantsWorking class womenWomen foreign workers