Women in the Gold Fields.
All of the men are supposed to be nice to the women but the are not always.
"Although rough in their manners and not over select in their address, the digger seldom willfully injures a woman; in fact, a regular Vandemonian will, in his way, play the gallant with as great a zest as a fashionable about town – at any rate, with more sincerity of heart". Ellen Clacy By Grace Hobson