Item Detail
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Chisholm, Caroline (1808-1877)
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née Jones; Caroline Jones Chisholm; Mrs. Chisholm "Emigrant's Friend"
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reform writer, travel writer, school founder, water diviner, pamphleteer, periodical contributor, migration reformer & writer, novelist, speaker, philanthropist
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English; born in in Northampton, England; spent time in India, Australia
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daughter of Sarah & William Jones; wife of Capt. Archibald Chisholm; mother of Caroline Agnes Chisholm Gray (1848-1927)
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- Russell, Catherine. "Women of History." A Bit of History (http://www.abitofhistory.net/)
- Gorman, W. Gordon. Converts to Rome: A Biographical List of the More Notable Converts to the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom During the Last Sixty Years. New & englarged edition. London: Sands & Co., 1910.
- Story of the Life of Mrs. Caroline Chisholm, the Emigrants' Friend, and Her Adventures in Australia. London: Trelawney Saunders, 1852.
- Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University (http://adb.anu.edu.au/)
- Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org/)
- Google Books
- Dickens Journals Online (http://www.djo.org.uk/)
- Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (http://orlando.cambridge.org/)
- Blain, Virginia; Clements, Patricia; Grundy, Isobel. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. © Oxford University Press
- Theakstone, John. Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers: A Bibliography of Books Published in English. Mansfield Centre, Conn.: Martino, 2006.
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• wrote Female Immigration: Considered in a Brief Account of the Sydney Immigrants' Home Emigration and Transportation Relatively Considered, In a Letter Comfort for the Poor: Meat Three Times a Day Little Joe Memoirs of Mrs. Caroline Chisholm