One Free Woman: The True Story of Convict Hannah Rigby by Jane Smith

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still very good.

Hannah Rigby, a poor Liverpool seamstress, prisoner, and serial thief, was exiled from her homeland and oppressed by poverty and rigid social mores. Used and discarded by a series of men, she became an "exemplary" servant with a love for life and a single mother determined to keep her family together.

This book tells the true story of the only female convict to remain in Moreton Bay after the penal settlement closed -- a woman who notoriously endured three separate sentences of transportation, including two at one of the harshest establishments in the country. This account reflects the lives of many women struggling against poverty and gender inequality -- voices often lost to history. (back cover)