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The Tin Ticket
The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
By Swiss, Deborah J.
- ISBN
- 978-0-42523-672-7
- Publisher
- Berkley: Penguin Group (USA)
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Reviewed on February 11, 2011
Australia's early years as a prison colony to which British convicts were transported are well known, but less noted is that among those convicts were 25,000 women from England and Ireland sent there in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Mostly desperate petty thieves, these women suffered from abuse, poor living conditions inside and out of prison, and a world offering few options to their gender. Swiss ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
on onFebruary 11, 2011 | LJXpress
Australia's early years as a prison colony to which British convicts were transported are well known, but less noted is that among those convicts were 25,000 women from England and Ireland sent there in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Mostly desperate petty thieves, these women suffered from abuse, poor living conditions inside and out of prison, and a world offering few options to their gender. Swiss ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
