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Van Diemen's Women - Kavanagh Joan

On September 2, 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen s Land, with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On December 3, the ship arrived into Hobart. While the…

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On September 2, 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen s Land, with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On December 3, the ship arrived into Hobart. While the book looks at the lives of all the women, it focuses on two women in particular; Eliza Davis, who was transported from Wicklow Gaol, where she was for life for infanticide, having had her sentence commuted from death; and Margaret Butler, sentenced to seven years transportation for stealing potatoes in Carlow. What emerges is a picture of the reality of transportation, together with the legacy left by these women in Tasmania, and asks the question about whether this Draconian punishment was, for some, a life-saving

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