A Shining Path

by Elaine Blick

Book Overview

Most women convicts sent to Australia in the early 1800s were forced into a life of servitude, where they are not only skivvies, but were mistresses of their employers as well.

How did Peggy escape this fate and become a schoolteacher instead?

Peggy was amongst a group of women convicts in London's Newgate prison awaiting their criminal transportation to Australia. The social reformer and Quaker Mrs Elizabeth Fry visited the infamous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 168235556X
• ISBN13: 9781682355565
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"