Article: Elizabeth Rushen, Single and Free: Female Migration to Australia, 1833-1837.(Book Review)

Elizabeth Rushen, Single and Free: Female Migration to Australia, 1833-1837, Australian Scholarly Publications, Melbourne, 2003, pp 228, pb $39.95, ISBN 1740970381.

Between 1833 and 1837, around 2,700 women received assisted passage to Australia under a British Government initiative financed by the sale of crown lands in the colonies. Elizabeth Rushen's account of this process uncovers the establishment, organisation and demise of the system itself as well as examining the lives, experiences and fates of the women who availed themselves of its opportunities.

The book is divided into three parts. The first examines in detail the individuals and ...

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