Female Immigration Considered

In a Brief Account of the Sydney Immigrants’ Home

Caroline Chisholm

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Format: paperback
Edition: First published in 1842 by James Tegg
56 pages
ISBN: 9781920897505

Publication: 01 Aug 2004
Series: SUP Classics
Publisher: Sydney University Press

Female Immigration Considered, published in 1842, recounts Caroline Chisholm’s first years of activity in the Female Immigrants Home. The aim of her work was to draw public attention towards and effect change in what Chisholm saw as the ‘evils’ of an immigration system that abandoned its subjects.

Tags: Australian classics, SUP Classics

Caroline Chisholm (1808-1877) was an English humanitarian and writer who worked with female immigrant welfare in Australia.

Preface

Female immigration: to the reverend clergy of Australia
Letters
Appendix
Gifts of gratitude
To the Immigration Board