A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1838Melbourne University Press, 1968 - Australia |
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... women to the prospect of changing their life of vice for one in which from day to day they strengthened their feeling for virtue . She was Elizabeth Fry . " On the night before the women were removed from Newgate to the convict ship ...
... women to the prospect of changing their life of vice for one in which from day to day they strengthened their feeling for virtue . She was Elizabeth Fry . " On the night before the women were removed from Newgate to the convict ship ...
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... women as their mis- tresses , and peggers - out of their skins . In drunken rages , brought on by disappointments in the chase , or , at times , by some darkness in themselves , they tied these women up , and flogged them in the most ...
... women as their mis- tresses , and peggers - out of their skins . In drunken rages , brought on by disappointments in the chase , or , at times , by some darkness in themselves , they tied these women up , and flogged them in the most ...
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... women dying of drunkenness . One woman , having escaped from her husband , drank herself almost to a state of insensibility , when she committed the crime of adultery . Retribution , the Sydney Gazette was happy to say , struck swiftly ...
... women dying of drunkenness . One woman , having escaped from her husband , drank herself almost to a state of insensibility , when she committed the crime of adultery . Retribution , the Sydney Gazette was happy to say , struck swiftly ...
Contents
THE SETTING IN NEW SOUTH WALES | 17 |
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE SON | 41 |
THE NATIVE SON OFFENDS GROSSLY | 61 |
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