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The Women of Botany Bay
Author: Portia Robinson
Hardcover with dust jacket, excellent condition, 1st edition
"The Women of Botany Bay" is a history of the European women who came to New South Wales as convicted felons or as the free wives of convicts. It is based on the re-creation of the individual and collective British and Australian lives of every woman convicted in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and transported to New South Wales between 1787 and 1828, and as many of the 'convict wives' as could be traced. The contribution of these women to the development of a distinctive Australian society and their influence on the nature, structure and characteristics of that society, has been ignored, glossed over or distorted. It is the aim of this book to allow these women to speak for themselves after some 200 years of neglect and misrepresentation. It is on the evidence of their own lives, achievements, failures, hopes and despairs, that their influence on both the social and economic development of the colony of New South Wales is reassessed.
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