Requirement: 1000 words (excluding footnotes and bibliography)
Your analysis must address the questions below and should be based on a discussion of the online exhibition, ‘A Place for the Friendless Female’ and the readings outlined below (in e-reserve). Use the Grimshaw and McConville pieces as well as at least 4 other secondary readings.
Question: What does the ‘A Place for the Friendless Female’ exhibition suggest of the quality of womens’ citizenship in colonial Australia? Compared with the readings, how successfully does the exhibition place the role of female immigration in the history of colonial Australia?
These readings must be addressed/referenced in the essay:
Primary Source
‘A Place for the Friendless Female’ exhibition: Hyde Park Barracks Museum, available here.
Secondary Sources
Grimshaw, Patricia. “Making Male and Female Worlds.” In Creating a Nation, edited by Grimshaw, Patricia, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath, and Marian Quartly, Ringwood, Vic: McPhee Gribble, 1994, pp. 79-105.
McConville, Chris, “Peopling the Place Again.” In A Most Valuable Acquisition, A People’s History of Australia since 1788, edited by Verity Burgmann and Jenny Lee, Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1988, pp. 73-86.
along with four other secondary sources, which MUST be chosen from this list here:
Additional Secondary Sources:
Rushen, Elizabeth. “‘Not the very lowest and poorest classes’: Irish female assisted immigration to Australia in the 1830s.” Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 9, (2009): pp. 52-72.
Crook, Penny and Tim Murray. “An Archaeology of Institutional Refuge: The Material Culture of the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney1848 –1886.” Archaeology of the Modern City Series, 12. Sydney: Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2006. [Available here as well as in e-reserve.]
Haines, Robin. “Indigent Misfits or Shrewd Operators? Government-assisted Emigrants from the United Kingdom to Australia, 1831–1860.” Population Studies, 48 (1994): pp. 381-394.
Davies, Peter. “Destitute Women and Smoking at the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, Australia.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 15(1) (2011): pp. 82-101.
Reid, Richard. “Dora MacDonagh and her ‘sisters’: Irish female assisted immigration to New South Wales c. 1848-1870.” In Irish Women in Colonial Australia, edited by Trevor McClaughlin. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1998, pp. 64-81, 200-201.
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