Female factory female convicts : the story of the more than 13,000 women exiled from Britain to Van Diemen's Land
Title:
Female factory female convicts : the story of the more than 13,000 women exiled from Britain to Van Diemen's Land / Tony Rayner.
Author/Creator:
Publication:
Dover, Tasmania : Esperance Press, c2004.
Physical description:
199 pages : illlustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Young, noisy and light fingered -- City of terror -- The Bloody Code -- The women -- Perils at sea -- Entering exile -- Colonial crime and punishment -- A new world -- The Female Factories -- Hobart Town Female Factory -- The man with the black books -- Cascades Female Factory -- Pity the children -- Life at Cascades Factory -- Winding down of the system -- Conclusion
Summary:
Shipwreck and disease, the humiliation of stocks, iron collars and head shaving, and always the threat of the female factories designed to controle thier minds and crush their spirits. This is a vivid portrait of the convict era and the lives of the women who became the founding mothers of Tasmania.
ISBN:
1876342137 (paperback)
9781876342135 (paperback)
Record ID:
SD_ILS:750847