Bibliograph

Abandoned Women, Scottish convicts exiled beyond the seas

Type

Label

Abandoned Women, Scottish convicts exiled beyond the seas

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Abandoned Women

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

779141530

Sub title

Scottish convicts exiled beyond the seas

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

Table Of Contents

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

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