"On 2 September 1845, the convict ship 'Tasmania' left Kingston Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 December the

'Her superb research and sympathetic reconstructions of nineteenth-century Scotland and Australia bring to life a long-forgotten but fascinating group of women.

Stories of women convicts who were incarcerated in the New Norfolk Lunatic Asylum

Seventy-three thousand convicts were transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land in the first half of the nineteenth century. They played a v

"Notorious strumpets tells the story of more than 1,600 convict women who came to Van Diemen's Land before 1830. Their experiences as convicts were infinately d