Title Abandoned women : Scottish convicts exiled beyond the seas / Lucy Frost

Published Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2012 Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2012

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Description 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 Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate, General Notes Copyright © Lucy Frost 2012 Subject Convict labor -- Australia -- Tasmania. Reformatories for women -- Australia -- Tasmania. Scots -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 1803-1900 Women prisoners -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History. Women prisoners -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Social conditions -- 1803-1851 Women prisoners -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Women pioneers -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 1803-1900 Women pioneers -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century. Women -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 1803-1900 Women -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Social conditions -- 1803-1900 Women -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century. Women -- Australia -- Tasmania -- Social conditions -- 19th century. SUBJECT Tasmania -- History -- 1803-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004483 Scotland -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96009687 -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 LC no. 2012453172 ISBN 9781742377605 (paperback) (paperback

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