Abandoned Women
Subtitle: Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781760290269
Subjects: Women prisoners; Convict labor; Reformatories for women; Women, social conditions; Women pioneers; Tasmania, history; Scotland, social conditions
Description: From the crowded tenements of Edinburgh to the Female Factory nestling in the shadow of Mt Wellington, dozens of Scottish women convicts were exiled to Van Diemen's Land with their young children. This is a rich and evocative account of the lives of women at the bottom of society two hundred years ago.