Caroline Chisholm

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CC devoted much of her life to helping British nineteenth-century emigrants (particularly women and working-class families) to travel to Australia, and her writing was primarily dedicated to this cause. She produced numerous tracts on emigration issues, collected autobiographical statements from settlers, and wrote editorials and delivered lectures on settlement issues, as well as composing one novella. These works, in conjunction with CC 's untiring activist efforts, contributed to her prominent status as a public figure.
Black and white engraving by J. B. Hunt after a daguerreotype of Caroline Chisholm in her later years by Antoine Claudet. She sits on a chair, wearing a scarf over her hair, a heavy shawl over her dress, and black mittens on her hands. Beneath is reproduced in her handwriting "Yours truly, Caroline Chisholm."

Milestones

30 May 1808

Caroline Jones (later CC ) was born at Wootton, three miles from Northampton, the youngest of twelve children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
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1842

Caroline Chisholm published a pamphlet entitled Female Immigration Considered, in a Brief Account of the SydneyImmigrant's Home.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
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1850

Caroline Chisholm published a pamphlet, The A. B. C. of Colonization.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
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25 March 1877

At sixty-nine years of age, and after six years of bed rest, CC died at Fulham in London from the complications of kidney disease.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
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Biography

Birth and Childhood

30 May 1808

Caroline Jones (later CC ) was born at Wootton, three miles from Northampton, the youngest of twelve children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
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