Van Diemen's Women: A History of Transportation to Tasmania

by Dianne Snowden and Joan Kavanagh

On 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 December, the ship arrived into Hobart Town. While this book looks at the lives of all the women aboard, it focuses on two women in particular: Eliza Davis, who was transported from Wicklow Gaol for life for infanticide, having had her sentence commuted from death, and Margaret Butler, sentenced to seven...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845888855
• ISBN13: 9781845888855
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Thp Ireland
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"