This book focuses on the departure of Britain’s 'surplus' women to Australia and New Zealand organised by Victorian British female emigration societies. Start

First published in 1979. This book examines the distressed gentlewoman stereotype, primarily through a study of the experience of emigration among single middle

International Migrations in the Victorian Era covers a wide range of case studies to unveil the complexity of transnational circulations and connections in the

This book examines the British government’s response to the ‘superfluous women problem', and concerns about post-war unemployment more generally, by creatin

This book studies the ways in which the assessment of being or not being ‘respectable’ has been applied to women in the UK in the past one hundred and fifty