Abandoned Women: Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas
by Lucy Frost
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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.Tags
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Lucy Frost has spent a career researching and writing about nineteenth-century women. She is the author of No Place for a Nervous Lady and other books on women's experience.
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Sexuality and Gender Studies
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- 365.43099463 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Punishment Institutions for specific classes of inmates Institutions for adult women
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- HV9872 .F76 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminal justice administration Penology. Prisons. Corrections By region or country
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