Van Diemen's Women - Kavanagh Joan
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. While the book looks…
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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. 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. On December 3, the ship arrived into Hobart.
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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