These Outcast Women: The Parramatta Female Factory 1821-1848 by Annette Salt

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some minor marks on covers. Underlining of text.

The Parramatta Female Factory has long been an enigma in Australian history. The very name provokes conjecture - who were its inhabitants? What brought them to the factory? What did their contemporaries think of them, and how fair were such judgments?

Annette Salt situates the Factory within its social context and examines the multifaceted role it played in the lives of early Australian women. - employment bureau, house of correction, matrimonial agency, asylum and workplace.

Second volume in the series Macquarie Colonial Papers.