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Total pages original book: 400
Includes a PDF summary of 43 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 30M44S (8.6 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
Other categories, genre or collection: True Crime Biographies, Gender Studies: Women, True Crime Books, Australasian & Pacific History, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900