REFERENCES
- Anderson , R. D. 1995 . Education and the Scottish People , Oxford : Clarendon Press .
- Barrie , Dyster . 1989 . Servant and Master , Kensington, NSW : New South Wales University Press .
- Fitzpatrick David . 1989 . Emigration, 1801–70 , in W. E. Vaughan The New History of lreland . Vol. 5, Ireland under the Union, 1, 1807–70 . Oxford Clarendon Press, pp. 562–622 .
- Frost , Lucy . 1984 . No Place for a Nervous Lady: Voices from the Australian Bush , Melbourne : McPhee Gribble/Penguin .
- Great Britain. Parliament. 1843 . Report of the Commissioners appointed to take the Census of Ireland for the Year 1841 , in Parliamentary Papers (504) XXIV, 1 .
- Farley , Grubb . 1987 . Colonial immigrant literacy: an economic analysis of Pennsylvania-German evidence, 1727–1775 . Explorations in Economic History , 24 : 63 – 76 .
- Holt S.C. 1987 . “Family, Kinship, Community and Friendship Ties in Assisted Emigration from Cambridgeshire to the Port Phillip District and Victoria, 1840–1867”. Unpublished MA thesis, La Trobe University .
- Mitch , David F. 1992 . The Rise of Popular Literacy in Victorian England: The Influence of Private Choice and Public Policy , Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press .
- Mitchell Library , Sydney. 1841 . Holograph letters to William and Betsy Slocombe from their parents 12 and 19 May . Ae35/1 .
- Mitchell Library, Sydney. 1842. Governor's Despatches to Secretary of State, Vol. 40. Gipps to Stanley, 19 September. ML Al 229.
- Mitchell Library Sydney. Diary of George Kershaw: ML MSS 624. Kershaw Family Papers: MSS/3797 .
- OEC D. 1995 . Literacy Economy and Society: Results of the First International Adult Literacy Survey . Paris/Ottawa .
- Deborah , Oxley . 1988 . “Female convicts”, Reinterpreting Australia's Past , 85 – 97 . Melbourne : Cambridge University Press .
- Schofield , R. S. 1973 . Dimensions of literacy, 1750–1850 . Explorations in Economic History , 10 : 437 – 454 .
- Lawrence , Stone . 1969 . Literacy and education in England, 1640–1900 . Past and Present , 42 : 69 – 139 .
- Sydney Herald 1840. November 9.
- Sydney Herald 1843. February 2.
- David , Vincent . 1989 . Literacy and Popular Culture: England, 1750–1914 , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
- John Manning , Ward . 1981 . James Macarthur, Colonial Conservative, 1798–1867 , Sydney : Sydney University Press .
- Webb , R. K. 1955 . The British Working Class Reader, 1790–1848: Literacy and Social Tension , London : Allen and Unwin .
- Charlotte , Erickson . 1994 . Leaving England: Essays on British Emigration in the Nineteenth Century , Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press .
- Great Britain. Parliament. 1842 . Fourth Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, in Parliamentary Papers (423) XIX, 441 .
- Great Britain. Parliament. 1843 . Fifth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, in Parliamentary Papers (516) XXI, 341 .
- Houston , R. A. 1985 . Scottish Literacy and Scottish Identity: Illiteracy and Society in Scotland and Northern England, 1600–1800 , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
- Madgwick , R. B. 1937 . Immigration into Eastern Australia, 1788–1851 , London : Longmans, Green .
- Shultz Robert J. 1971 . “The Assisted Immigrants, 1837–1850: A Study of Some Aspects of the Characteristics and Origins of the Immigrants Assisted to New South Wales and the Port Phillip District, 1837–1850” . Unpublished PhD thesis Australian National University .
- Stephens W. B. 1987 . Education, Literacy and Society, 1830–70: The Geography of Diversity in Provincial England . Manchester Manchester University Press .
- David , Galenson . 1981 . White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
- Robin , Haines , Kleinig , Margrette , Oxley , Deborah and Richards , Eric . 1998 . Migration and opportunity: an antipodean perspective . International Review of Social History , 43 : 235 – 265 .
- Peter , Laslett . 1983 . The World We Have Lost: Further Explored , 3rd , London : Methuen .
- Eneas , Mackenzie . 1852 . Memoirs of Mrs Caroline Chisholm: with an account of her philanthropic labours, in India, Australia, and England , 2nd , London : Webb, Millington .
- Richards Eric and Anne Herraman . 1998 . “Irish women in colonial South Australia”, in Trevor McClaughlin , Irish Women in Colonial Australia . Sydney, pp. 82–104 .
- Michael , Sanderson . 1972 . Literacy and social mobility in the industrial revolution in England . Past and Present , 56 : 75 – 104 .
- Penglase , B. M. 1983 . An enquiry into literacy in early nineteenth century New South Wales . The Push from the Bush , 16 : 39 – 60 .
- Harvey , Graff . 3.1987 . The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflections on Literacy Past and Present , London : Falmer Press .
- Great Britain Parliament. 1840 . Second Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England , in Parliamentary Papers ( 263) (276) XVII 1 37
- John , McDonald and Richards , Eric . 1997 . The great emigration of 1841: recruitment for New South Wales in British emigration fields . Population Studies , 51 : 337 – 355 .
- Martin , A. W. 1980 . Henry Parkes: A Biography , Carlton : Melbourne University Press .
- David Noel , Doyle . 1989 . “ The Irish in North America, 1776–1845 ” . In The New History of Ireland. Vol. 5, Ireland under the Union, 1, 1807–70 , Edited by: Vaughan , W. E. 682 – 725 . Oxford : Clarendon Press .
- Haines , Robin F. 1997 . Emigration and the Labouring Poor: Australian Recruitment in Britain and Ireland, 1831–60 , Basingstoke : Macmillan .
- Martyn , Lyons and Taksa , Lucy . 1992 . Australian Readers Remember:An Oral History ofReading,1890–1930 , Melbourne : Oxford University Press .
- Joel , Mokyr . 1985 . “The industrial revolution and the new economic history”, in Joel Mokyr , The Economics of the lndustrial Revolution , 1 – 51 . London : Allen and Unwin .
- Muir Lesley and Brian Madden . 1996 . “Canterbury sugar works fire”, History Sydney ), June .
- Nicholas , Stephen . 1988 . Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia's Past , Melbourne : Cambridge University Press .
- O'Gráda Cormac . 1989 . Industry and communications, 1801–45 , in W. E. Vaughan , The New History of Ireland. Vol. 5, Ireland under the Union, I, 1807–70 . Oxford Clarendon Press, pp. 137–157 .
- Reid Richard . 1992 . Aspects of Irish Assisted Immigration to New South Wales, 1848–70 . Unpublished PhD thesis Australian National University .