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Visible women : female immigrants in colonial Australia / edited by Eric Richards.

Title
Visible women : female immigrants in colonial Australia / edited by Eric Richards.
Publication
Canberra : Division of Historical Studies and Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Richards, Eric, 1940-2018
  • Australian National University. Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies.
  • Australian National University. Division of Historical Studies.
Description
167 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Visible immigrants ; 4
Uniform Title
Visible immigrants ; 4.
Subject
  • Women immigrants > Australia > History
  • Women prisoners > Australia > History
  • Australia > History
Note
  • A study of the willing and unwilling early female immigrants to Australia, including convict women, unassisted English women and assisted immigrant women in South Australia.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Convict women and assisted female immigrants compared, 1841: a turning point? / Deborah Oxley, Eric Richards -- Glimpses of unassisted English women arriving in Victoria, 1860-1900 / Nicole McLennan -- Immigrant women in narratives of divorce / Lucy Frost -- Independent women: South Australia's assisted immigrants, 1872-1939 / Margrette Kleinig -- The unimportance of gender in explaining post-famine Irish emigration / David Fitzpatrick.
ISBN
0731523024
OCLC
38391848
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library