| Description |
1 online resource (400 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
On September 2, 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land, with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On December 3, the ship arrived into Hobart. While the book looks at the lives of all the women, it focuses on two women in particular; Eliza Davis, who was transported from Wicklow Gaol, where she was for life for infanticide, having had her sentence commuted from death; and Margaret Butler, sentenced to seven years transportation for stealing potatoes in Carlow. What emerges is a picture of the reality of transportation, together with the legacy left by these women in Tasmania, and asks the question about whether this Draconian punishment was, for some, a life-saving measure. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand.
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Prisoners -- Transportation -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century.
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Reformatories for women -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century.
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Convict labor -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century.
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Women prisoners -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
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Women prisoners -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century.
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Penal transportation -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century.
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Tasmania -- History -- 1803-1900.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Snowden, Dianne, illustrator.
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McAleese, Mary, writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kavanagh, Joan. Van Diemen's women. Dublin, Ireland The History Press Ireland, 2015. 9781845888855 (DLC)2015463643 |
| Standard No. |
9780750966665 |
| ISBN |
9780750966665 (e-pub) |
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