Emigration and Empire: The Life of Maria S. Rye

ISBN-13: 9780815325284 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 324 str.

Marion Diamond

Opis

Maria S. Rye, a woman motivated by both feminist and philanthropic ideals, devoted her life to the migration of women and girls out of England. Between 1861 and 1896 she sent many hundreds of single women out to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and more than 4000 children to Canada. This biography gives an account of Rye's activities from her early engagement with liberal feminism through her association with the Langham Place group in the 1850s, her work as a journalist and with the Society for Promoting Women's Employment.

Recenzje

"This meticulously researched biography provides a valuable corrective to the benign neglect. Marion Diamond's well-balanced picture of Rye depicts a woman inspired as much by Evangelical Anglicanism as by feminism. Diamond deftly handles the contradictions that result." -- Victorian Studies
"Given her partial neglect and unfashionalbe obsessions, Rye makes a challenging subject for a biographer, and Diamond has risen to the challenge admirably. Diamond's relentless pursuit of her subject's trail in four countries is the distinctive mark of this engrossing biography. The book is an important contribution to the history of empire; those interested in the puzzling ways in which feminism, gender, religion, and philanthropy intertwined with the course of imperial development should not be without it." -- Victorian Studies

Spis treści

Introduction, Marion Diamond; Chapter 1 A Chelsea Childhood, Marion Diamond; Chapter 2 With the Ladies at Langham Place, Marion Diamond; Chapter 3 Solutions for Surplus Women, Marion Diamond; Chapter 4 New Zealand, Marion Diamond; Chapter 5 Australia, Marion Diamond; Chapter 6 An Emigration Agent in London, Marion Diamond; Chapter 7 A New Field in Canada, Marion Diamond; Chapter 8 ‘Our Gutter Children’, Marion Diamond; Chapter 9 Our Western Home, Marion Diamond; Chapter 10 Emigration and Empire, Marion Diamond;

O autorze

Marion Diamond