Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls: Convict Women in Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1829

ISBN-10
0207166919
ISBN-13
9780207166914
Category
Convict labor
Pages
1801
Language
English
Published
1990
Author
Phillip Tardif

Description

An account of the 1,675 women sent to what is now Tasmania in the colony's first quarter-century.

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