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Convict lives : women at Cascades Female Factory
Title:
Convict lives : women at Cascades Female Factory / Female Convicts Research Centre.
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Hobart : Convict Women's Press, 2012.
Physical description:
189 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Previous ed.: Hobart : Research Tasmania, 2009.

Includes updated introduction by Lucy Frost, March 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index.
Contents:
Deserving of severe punishment: Jane Turner -- Ann Darter, assigned servant -- Saved by a policeman: Sarah Waters -- A dislike of domestic service: Elizabeth Smith -- Rising to prosperity: Margaretta Sarah Brymer -- Sentenced in Van Diemen's Land: Mary Vowles -- A hard case: Ann Forest -- Extreme neatness: Mary Jarvis -- Catherine Henrys, alias Jemmy the Rover -- 116 grandchildren; Jane Morris -- MaryJane, a convict slave -- Ellen Scott of the Flash Mob -- Nurse Ludlow Tedder -- Capital respite: Elizabeth Williams -- Well-behaved women: Mary Kennedy and others -- Hard life and sad death: Mary Kinnear -- Children in the Female Factory: Mary Parfitt -- Mother has shot me: Mary Mulhair -- Fanny Langstaff will yet be a lady -- On the town: Sarah Myers -- Tough childhood, tough life: Elizabeth Cale -- Five partners, five children: Sophia White -- Your unfortunate and undutiful: Ellen Cornwall -- Eleven children: Margaret Callaghan -- Van Diemen's Land's Mona Lisa: Mary Nye -- Drunk and disorderly: Margaret Behan -- The Insane Asylum: Nappy King -- An old and a much respected resident: Catherine Bartley -- The poor creatures: Jane Cook -- Enthusiastic absconder: Mary Nicholson -- Rebellious Mary Ann Keith -- Esther Henrietta Botibol, Sephardic Jew -- Mary Sullivan, murderer.
Summary:
"Convict Lives tells the stories of 33 fascinating women. Cascades Female Factory in Van Diemen's Land opened in 1828 and closed as a gaol in 1877. Female convicts, and some locally convicted women, were sent there for punishment, to be assigned or hired as servants, or to await confinement."--Back cover.
ISBN:
9780987144324

9780987144324 (pbk.)

0987144324
Record ID:
SD_ILS:1056590