Author: TWOMEY, Christina.
Title: Deserted and Destitute: Motherhood, Wife Desertion and Colonial Welfare.
Description: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2002. Paperback. Ex-library, a touch of sunning to spine, otherwise good (no markings to clean and bright text). Scarce. Explores "...women's efforts to provide for their children and reformers' attempts to deal with the problem of wife desertion as complex factors in the development of social policy". 201pp. ISBN 1740970101.

Keywords: social sociology australia australian social history wife women gender desertion 19th 20th century nineteenth twentieth colonial colony