Convict maids : the forced migration of women to Australia / Deborah Oxley.
Series: Studies in Australian history (Cambridge University Press) | Studies in Australian historyPublisher: Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: xi, 339 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0521446775 (pbk.)
- 0521441315
- Convict labour -- Australia -- History
- Women convicts -- Australia -- History
- Women -- Australia -- History
- Convict labor -- Australia -- History
- Women immigrants -- Australia -- History
- Convict labor
- Penal colonies
- Women immigrants
- Women prisoners
- Penal colonies -- Australia -- History
- Women prisoners -- Australia -- History
- Women immigrants -- Australia -- History
- Convict labor -- Australia -- History
- Australia -- Economic conditions
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Australia -- Social conditions
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 1788-1851
- Australia -- Economic conditions -- 1788-1851
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- Australia
- Prisoners
- Women
- Immigration
- Labour shortages
- History, 1801-1900
- Criminals Transportation
- Women
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- Australia
- 994.0082 21
Contents:
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library | 994.0082 OXL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for loan to members and ILL | 65590 |
Includes index.
Bibliography.
Machine derived contents note: 1. Elizabeth: a note on data and method -- 2. Mercury's charges: the crimes of convict women -- 3. Piso's justice: Irish and English offenders -- 4. Economic accoutrements: the skills of convict women -- 5. Ireland's distant shores: working life in Ireland -- 6. England's castaways: working life in England -- 7. Colonial requirements: coerced and free immigrants -- 8. Misconceptions -- 9. Britain's loss/Australia's gain? -- Concluding remarks.
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