Abandoned Women Australian marsupials and a convict ancestor or

and a convict ancestor or an illegitimate birth were shames that families once buried deep

Tony Fenton has woven ground-breaking research into a well-structured and intriguing narrative that reveals an unexpected past alive with people and plans

and Max Ernst

Featuring an introduction by well-known Tasmanian art historian

Abandoned Women Australian marsupials and a convict ancestor orFrom the crowded tenements of Edinburgh to the Female Factory nestling in the shadow of Mt Wellington, dozens of Scottish women convicts were exiled to Van Diemen's Land with their young children. This is a rich and evocative account of the lives of women at the bottom of society two hundred years ago. Soft cover edition.