• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH003035

Caroline Chisholm (1808-1877) – friend of destitute immigrant girls

  • Repository Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc
  • Description

    Detailed account of the life and work of Caroline Chisholm., Particular reference to Female Immigrants Home, Family Colonization Loan Society, cult of Caroline Chisholm in art and literature, Charles Dickens acknowledgement of her work, attack on the squatters and biographical sketch of Archibald Chisholm. Also includes a letter re the Chisholm emigration scheme in 1852 and correspondence and notes from R.H.S.V.,A very interesting paper.

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  • Primary Subject
    • Chisholm, Caroline (1808 - 1877)