Caroline Chisholm
Published on 18. October 2016
252 pages
978-0-522-86548-6 (ISBN)
Description
'The most astonishing thing about her is that she did such work at a time when women were still imprisoned in the strait-jacket of Victorian convention'-Margaret Kiddle Caroline Chisholm was the most remarkable woman in early Australian colonial history. Her national importance has been marked by the use of her portrait on Australian stamps and currency. This is the classic biography of the woman whose remarkable and hard-won achievements first asserted the place of women in Australian public life. Almost single-handedly and against strenuous and sometimes malicious opposition, the indomitable Chisholm worked to establish a Female Immigrants' Home, to encourage family immigration and to fight for better conditions on immigrant ships. Her biography has rightly been acclaimed as outstanding, a landmark in the study of women in Australia's history. The author was herself a pioneer among Australian women historians.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the Abridged Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Conversions
- Introduction to the 1990 Edition
- Introduction
- 1 Early Years, 1808-40
- 2 The Female Immigrants' Home
- 3 Colonizing Practice and Theory
- 4 Mrs Chisholm and the Colonial Office
- 5 Family Colonization
- 6 Fulfilment
- 7 A Forthright Radical
- 8 The Sum of Achievement
- Appendices
- A Statistics of Mrs Chisholm's Female Immigrants, 1842
- B Voluntary Statements from Immigrants
- C Caroline Chisholm to Earl Grey, 25 January 1847 Earl Grey to Caroline Chisholm, 4 February 1847
- D Caroline Chisholm to Miss Burdett-Coutts, 14 March 1854
- E Some Shipboard Regulations of the Family Colonization Loan Society
- F Occupations of Family Colonization Loan Society Immigrants, 1851-55
- Index
