Caroline Chisholm

Caroline Chisholm

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Caroline Chisholm
Caroline Chisholm (1808-1877), philanthropist, was born near Northampton, England, daughter of William Jones, a well-to-do farmer. Reared in the tradition of Evangelical philanthropy, at 22 she agreed to marry Captain Archibald Chisholm of the East India Co., but on condition that her philanthropic work should continue. He was thirteen years her senior and a Roman Catholic, which may have influenced her conversion to Catholicism about this time. Chisholm was posted in 1832 to Madras where Caroline founded the Female School of Industry for the Daughters of European Soldiers...continue reading...

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Caroline Chisholm: Advocate for Women and Prophet of the Laity
CAROLINE Chisholm’s work unfolded in Australia and England in the middle decades of the 19th century. Her main focus was to alleviate poverty and the associated moral dangers. Caroline’s most pressing and immediate concern was the well being of young unaccompanied women immigrants many of whom found themselves alone on the streets of Sydney...
Labouring for the good of the people
Caroline Chisholm is well known for her work with female immigrants and family migration schemes in New South Wales. In Victoria, she pursued the idea that immigrants needed to be dispersed inland in order to find land and/or employment.
Caroline Chisholm Proposes 'Stations for Immigrants'
Mrs Chisholm shared conventional Victorian views on the importance of family life as the foundation of an ordered society. She believed in particular in the civilising power of women and children (she used the phrase 'God's police' more than once). With that in mind she and her husband succeeded in attracting enough patronage to establish a Family Colonization Loan Society to assist families to emigrate to eastern Australia and to find them employment on arrival....

The Caroline Chisholm Scrapbook

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Anderson, M. (n.d.). Caroline Chisholm proposes 'stations for immigrants'. Old Treasury Building. https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/caroline-chisholm-letter/
Australian Women's Archives Project and Public Record Office Victoria. (2005). Ten Victorian women: Caroline Chisholm. http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/fl/flten01.htm
Culture Victoria. (n.d.). The Caroline Chisholm scrapbook with Moya McFadzean [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/496GLlW8HgY
Geoghegan, C. (2022). Caroline Chisholm: Advocate for women and prophet of the Laity. The Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn.
Hayter, A. C. (1852). Caroline Chisholm [Painting]. Australian Dictionary of Biography. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/chisholm-caroline-1894
Healey, Richard. (n.d.). Caroline Chisholm [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/_WBT0MQuZI8
Iltis. J. (2006). Chisholm, Caroline (1808–1877). Australian Dictionary of Biography. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/chisholm-caroline-1894

Religion - Year 9 - The Catholic Church in Australia: Caroline Chisholm

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The Caroline Chisholm Scrapbook

Caroline Chisholm

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