Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...is carrying on a work of great value and importance alike to Great Britain and the British Empire. The immediate outcome of the article in question was that the Agent-General for South Australia forwarded to the Editor some "better information " regarding emigration to that colony, and this was published in the issue for June, 1877, with further comments by the Editor, and also with a contribution, signed "Carina," from Mrs. E. L. Blanchard, who had already had much practical experience alike in the settlement of young women emigrants in the colonies and in supervising the arrangements on this side. Mrs. Blanchard gave in her letter an interesting account of the conditions under which the emigration of women was carried on, and of the possible advantages it onered, this account being, in fact, the beginning of a long series of communications by her to the Woman's Gazette and Work and Leisure on the same subject. The Editor had F evidently added " Carina" to her list of co-workers, for in referring to that lady's contribution she said: --"The writer has most kindly volunteered to give personal "advice and direction to intending emigrants by appoint"ment at the office of this paper, 42, Somerset Street, "Portman Square. Application must be made, in the first "instance, to the Sub-editor of the Gazette." These communications and opportunities must have been of considerable service at a time when information on the subject was far less easy to obtain than it is at present, and, in fact, the office of the Woman's Gazette speedily became the Women's Emigration Bureau of that period. It is not a little curious, also, in this connection, to find that the British Ladies' Female Emigrant...
