Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls: Convict Women in Van Diemen’s Land 1803–1829 by Phillip Tardif

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine and is now enclosed in jacket protector. Interior is still excellent.

Transportation of women to Van Diemen's Land began in 1803 and continued until 1853. Grossly outnumbered by men and easily overlooked, these convict women were delivered to an alien land of unfamiliar terrain, disapproving authorities, and a small community of colonials exceedingly short on females and desperate for labour.

Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls presents a clear and diverse portrait of 1,675 women sent to Van Diemen's Land as convicts during the colony's first quarter century. For each woman, her crime, trade, origins, appearance, colonial misdemeanours and punishments, marriage and the date and agency by which she gained her freedom, if indeed she did. (book flap)