Caroline Chisholm and the Family Colonisation Loan Society

Speaker: Dr Carole Walker
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, London N1

Caroline Chisholm was a resident of Charlton Crescent, now Charlton Place, Islington, from where she organised the Family Colonisation Loan Society in the mid-1850s. She was a very well known woman in the mid-19th century, as well known as Florence Nightingale.  Regrettably however she is now little known of in the country of her birth.  She is better known in Australia where a portrait of her appeared on the Australian $5 for twenty-five years.

 Carole Walker

After an earlier career as a Personal Assistant and raising a family, Carole returned to further education, studying for a BA in English Literature at Loughborough University, and a Masters Degree in Victorian Studies at Leicester University.

Whilst working on her dissertation for the Masters Degree, Carole came across the work of Caroline Chisholm and was hooked, successfully completing a Doctorate on Caroline’s life and work several years later. Her book “A Saviour of Living Cargoes: the life and work of Caroline Chisholm” was published by Wolds Publishing in 2010.