Wretched Women

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Female convicts
harsh treatment
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Kirkdale House of Corrections
Lancashire
Lancaster Castle
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law and order
law and order in the 1800's
New Bailey gaol
New South Wales
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penal sentences
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Quarter Session courts
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Transportation
transportation to Australia
Van Diemen's Land

Product details

  • ISBN 9781839525889
  • Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Dec 2022
  • Publisher: Brown Dog Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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In May 1824 twenty women under sentence of transportation languished in the gaol at Lancaster Castle. Some had been there for years and amongst them was a 76 year old. One woman called Mary Partridge was described as being a fit healthy woman who wished to go abroad.

Who were these women? How did they come to be sentenced to transportation? Why would anyone want to ‘go abroad’?

This book sets out to address these questions and others and tell these women’s stories, together with the stories of some of other women who were similarly sentenced in Lancashire.