Part Title; By the same author; Title Page; Dedication; 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; Picture section; 7 Orphans of the Atwick; 8 Motherhood under sentence; 9 The vararies of freedom; 10 The last survivors; Epilogue; Scottish convicts on the Atwick; Acknowledgements; A note on sources; Select bibliography; Index
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
