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Van Diemen's Women - A History of Transportation to Tasmania (Paperback)
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Van Diemen's Women - A History of Transportation to Tasmania (Paperback)
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List price R611
Loot Price R556
Discovery Miles 5 560
You Save R55 (9%)
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On 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown
Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female convicts and their 35
children. On 3 December, the ship arrived into Hobart Town. While
this book looks at the lives of all the women aboard, it focuses on
two women in particular: Eliza Davis, who was transported from
Wicklow Gaol for life for infanticide, having had her sentence
commuted from death, and Margaret Butler, sentenced to seven years'
transportation for stealing potatoes in Carlow. Using original
records, this study reveals the reality of transportation, together
with the legacy left by these women in Tasmania and beyond, and
shows that perhaps, for some, this Draconian punishment was, in
fact, a life-saving measure.
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