Story: Household services

More links and websites

• British and Irish immigration 1840–1914

  This section of the NZ History website looks at immigration to New Zealand from the British Isles, including servants.

• Station life in New Zealand

  A digital version of the 1870 book by Lady Mary Anne Barker.

More suggestions and sources

• Findlay, Mary. Tooth and nail: the story of a daughter of the depression. Auckland: Penguin, 1989.
• Macdonald, Charlotte. A woman of good character: single women as immigrant settlers in nineteenth-century New Zealand. Wellington: Allen & Unwin/Historical Branch, 1990.
• Millen, Julia. Colonial tears and sweat: the working class in nineteenth-century New Zealand. Wellington: Reed, 1984.
• Roth, Herbert. ‘The story of Amelia Anne.’ Here and Now 4, no. 4 (March 1954): 13–16.