231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents
1. "Fully ripe for transportation" -- 2. "Transported beyond Seas" -- 3. Deaths in the Female Factory -- 4. Finding a bearable place -- 5. "These rebellious hussies" -- 6. Taking the children away -- 7. Orphans of the Atwick -- 8. Motherhood under sentence -- 9. The vagaries of freedom -- 10. The last survivors
Summary
From the crowded tenements of Edinburgh to the Female Factory nestling in the shadow of Mt Wellington, dozens of Scottish women convicts were exiled to Van Diemen's Land with their young children. This is a rich and evocative account of the lives of women at the bottom of society two hundred years ago
Analysis
Australian
Biography
History
Prisoners
Scotland
Social conditions
Tasmania
Women
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-215) and index