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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11153746.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Emigration and immigration History 19th century.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-226) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The Imperial Import of the Emigrant Spinster -- The Politics of "Superfluity": Empire, Class, Emigration, and the Single Woman -- Preparations for Travel: Colonial Exports for Ideal Destinations -- Domestic Maps: Internal Migration, Gender, and the Sociography of "Elsewhere" -- Unsafe Journeys: Memory, Displacement, and Authority -- Questions of Value: Female Identity as Excess.".
- catalog extent "x, 228 p. :".
- catalog identifier "031221605X".
- catalog identifier "0333765192".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Emigration and immigration History 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "305.48/9691 21".
- catalog subject "HQ1593 .K73 1999".
- catalog subject "Single women Colonies Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Single women Great Britain Colonies History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women immigrants Colonies Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women immigrants Great Britain Colonies History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women, White Colonies Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women, White Great Britain Colonies History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Imperial Import of the Emigrant Spinster -- The Politics of "Superfluity": Empire, Class, Emigration, and the Single Woman -- Preparations for Travel: Colonial Exports for Ideal Destinations -- Domestic Maps: Internal Migration, Gender, and the Sociography of "Elsewhere" -- Unsafe Journeys: Memory, Displacement, and Authority -- Questions of Value: Female Identity as Excess.".
- catalog title "The Victorian spinster and colonial emigration : contested subjects / Rita S. Kranidis.".
- catalog type "text".