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the life of Caroline Chisholm
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Chisholm was posted in 1832 to Madras where Caroline founded the Female School of Industry for the Daughters of European Soldiers. -
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The Chisholms decided to spend leave in Australia and arrived in Sydney in the Emerald Isle in September 1838; they settled at Windsor, where Caroline remained with her three sons when Chisholm was recalled to active service in 1840 -
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In January 1841 she approachedGovernor and Lady Gipps and the proprietors of the Sydney Herald with a plan for a girls' home -
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Throughout 1842 she was almost continually on her white horse, Captain, accompanying parties into the interior and helping to allay their fears of the bush. -
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Undaunted, she arranged at her own expense the settlement of twenty-three families on land at Shellharbour given to her by Robert Towns and told a second committee in 1844 about this experiment, but her plan was again rejected. -
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Captain Chisholm retired from the army and returned to Australia in 1845 to work with his wife. Denied government assistance, the Chisholms travelled throughout New South Wales and collected over 600 statements from immigrants about their lives in Australia, this 'voluntary information' to serve as a guide to those in England who wished to emigrate. -
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With her husband she left for England in 1846 in theDublin. -
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A pamphlet letter to Earl Grey, Emigration and Transportation Relatively Considered (1847), better written than her first report, contained her first public attack on theWakefield system. -
Eighteen voluntary statements formed an appendix and she published others in Comfort for the Poor! Meat Three Times a Day!! Voluntary Information From the People of New South Wales (1847). Her house became an Australian information centre and for several
Eighteen voluntary statements formed an appendix and she published others in Comfort for the Poor! Meat Three Times a Day!! Voluntary Information From the People of New South Wales (1847). Her house became an Australian information centre and for several years she and her husband received an average of 140 letters a day. -
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Next she formed a committee of wealthy London merchants and, after a lecture tour of Scotland, her Family Colonization Loan Society became a reality in 1849, with Lord Ashley president of the London central committee, branch committees throughout the British Isles and agents in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. -
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. Mrs Chisholm's best-written pamphlet, The A.B.C. of Colonization(1850), denounced the landed interests and the renewed government scheme, describing in contrast her own society, founded in defiance of the squatters and with no official support. -
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When the first chartered ship Slains Castle sailed on 1 October 1850, she personally supervised the embarkation of passengers, placing friendless girls with families and the aged with the young. -
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In March 1851 Captain Chisholm left for Australia to work gratuitously as colonial agent, leaving Caroline with the increasing duties in Britain. -
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Charles Dickens gave the society powerful aid and in 1851-52 advertised the society inHousehold Words, although his unsympathetic portrait of Mrs Jellyby (Bleak House) was partly drawn from Mrs Chisholm. -
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In 1852 she toured the British Isles and later Germany, France and Italy, where she visited the Pope.