A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal

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New South Wales University Press, 1988 - History - 254 pages
The story of 100 women convicts transported together in 1829 from England to Australia--to become the unwitting and unwilling pioneers of a new land. Portrays the personalities and circumstances of the women, the conditions under which they served their sentences, and the course of their life after prison. Acidic paper. Available in North America from ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Pity Our Distress
6
The Full Penalty of the Law
15
Transported Beyond the Seas
24
Copyright

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About the author (1988)

Babette Smith is the author of The Luck of the Irish: How a Shipload of Convicts Survived the Wreck of the Hive to Make a New Life in Australia which won a NSW Premier History Award 2015 in the category of NSW Community and Regional History. The prize carries a monetary award of $15,000.

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