Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to AustraliaCambridge University Press, 17.06.1996 - 339 Seiten Convict Maids looks at female convicts transported from Britain and Ireland to New South Wales between 1826 and 1840. Deborah Oxley refutes the notion that these women were prostitutes and criminals, arguing that in fact they helped put the colony on its feet. Analyzing their backgrounds, Oxley finds that they were skilled, literate, young and healthy--qualities exploited by the new colony. Convict Maids draws on historical, economic and feminist theory, and is impressive for its extensive and original research. |
Inhalt
Creative Tensions | 1 |
Elizabeth A Note on Data and Method | 17 |
Mercurys Charges The Crimes of Convict Women | 34 |
Pisos Justice Irish and English Offenders | 63 |
Economic Accoutrements The Skills of Convict Women | 98 |
Irelands Distant Shores Working Life in Ireland | 129 |
Englands Castaways Working Life in England | 147 |
Colonial Requirements Coerced and Free Immigrants | 171 |
2 Crime Classification | 246 |
3 Stolen Goods Classification | 247 |
4 Socialskill Classification | 248 |
5 Irish Census Classification | 249 |
6 English Census Classification | 250 |
7 Free Immigrant Classfication | 251 |
Notes | 272 |
Bibliography of Works Cited | 312 |
Misconceptions | 198 |
Britains Loss Australias Gain? Concluding Remarks | 232 |
Appendices | 244 |
Index | 328 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
A. G. L. Shaw allwork arrived Australia Beattie Botany Bay British census cent century Clark clothes colony Convict indents Convict Maid convict women Convict workers convicts transported crime Criminal and victim criminal class Criminal prisons Diemen's Land domestic servants E. A. Wrigley emigration employers employment England English women factory farm servants female convicts Figure free immigrants historians Historical Studies immigrant women industrial revolution Ireland Irish and English Irish convicts Irish Economic Irish women Labour History literacy London maker Mayhew and Binny Melbourne Memorials of Millbank migration Millbank moral Nicholas nineteenth occupations offenders Old Bailey Oxley population poverty production professional criminals prostitutes punishment quoted robbery Robinson Robson Rudé rural Schedvin sentence Shergold ship single women skills society South Wales stealing stolen surgeon-superintendent Sydney T. C. Smout textile theft trade unskilled urban Van Diemen's Land wages Welsh convict women women convicts Women of Botany women transported
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