1st Edition

Emigrant Gentlewomen Genteel Poverty and Female Emigration, 1830-1914

By A. James Hammerton Copyright 1979
    222 Pages
    by Routledge

    222 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1979. This book examines the distressed gentlewoman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle-class women between 1830 and 1914. Based largely on a study of government and philanthropic emigration projects, it argues that the image of the downtrodden resident governess does inadequate justice to Victorian middle-class women’s responses to the experience of economic and social decline and to insufficient female employment opportunities. This title will be of interest to students of history.

    List of Tables;  Abbreviations;  Preface;  Introduction;  1. The Problem of the Distressed Gentlewoman  2. Pioneer Emigrants, 1832-1836  3. Mary Taylor in New Zealand: A Case Study  4. Emigration and Respectability, 1849-1853  5. Feminism and Female Emigration, 1861-1886  6. Emigration Propaganda and the Distressed Gentlewoman, 1880-1914;  Appendix I: Comparison of British and Colonial Occupations of Middle-Class Emigrants, 1832-1836;  Appendix II: ‘To England’s Daughters’ Dora Gore Browne;  Bibliography;  Index

    Biography

    A. James Hammerton