The Victorian Spinster and Colonial Emigration: Contested Subjects

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 1st ed. Hardcover. Front free endpaper slightly misaligned (binder flaw) else very good(+) thus in very good(-) mildly spine-sunned jacket with small closed edge tear and damp stain to spine bottom, now in archival mylar.. x, 228 pages: illustrations; 22 cm. "During the Victorian period, thousands of women left England to seek work and new lives in the British colonies. The Victorian Spinster and Colonial Emigration examines the highly problematic issues surrounding the colonial emigration of unmarried Victorian women, revealing the many ways in which they were regarded as cultural "excess." Rita S. Kranidis explains how England had little use for spinsters, a category applied to the working and middle classes, including domestic laborers, genteel women, and middle-class widows."--Jacket ¶ Contents: Introduction Neither Here Nor There Preparations for Travel: Colonial Exports for Ideal Destinations Domestic Maps: The Sociology of 'Elsewhere' Unsafe Journeys: Memory, Displacement and Authority Identity as Excess: Questions of Value, Gender and Agency Endnotes Index. // 800-1899, Blanches Grande-Bretagne Colonies Histoire 19e siècle, Emigration and immigration, Femmes seules Grande-Bretagne Colonies Histoire 19e siècle, Great Britain, Great Britain Colonies History 19th century, Great Britain Emigration and immigration History 19th century, History, Immigrantes Grande-Bretagne Colonies Histoire 19e siècle, Single women British colonies, Single women Great Britain Colonies, Single women Great Britain Colonies History 19th century, Women immigrants, Women immigrants British colonies, Women immigrants Great Britain Colonies History 19th century, Women, White Great Britain Colonies History 19th century, Contents:, Introduction Neither Here Nor There Preparations for Travel: Colonial Exports for Ideal Destinations Domestic Maps: The Sociology of 'Elsewhere' Unsafe Journeys: Memory, Displacement and Authority Identity as Excess: Questions of Value, Gender and Agency Endnotes Index.