The Tin Ticket – Australia's Convict Women | Deborah J. Swiss | 2011 [SC]

Deborah J. Swiss traces the lives of four women transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 19th century — following them from their origins in Scotland and Ireland through the voyage, the assignment system, and their years in the colony.

Agnes McMillan and her best friend Janet Houston were transported from Glasgow. Ludlow Tedder faced the impossible choice of which of her four children she could take with her to the other side of the world. Bridget Mulligan's line of descendants stretches to the present day.

Swiss researches each woman's life in detail and follows them through the records — who they were before transportation, what happened to them in Van Diemen's Land, and what became of them and their families. Elizabeth Gurney Fry — the Quaker prison reformer who worked with female convicts before and after transportation — runs as a thread through all four stories.

At 362 pages with black and white illustrations and a full index, this is readable popular history that takes individual women seriously rather than treating them as statistics.

BOOK DETAILS

Softcover.

362 pages, indexed.

Black and white illustrations.

Published 2011.

New.

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