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Author | : Elsbeth Hardie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781876467241 |
On 8th April 1811, the ship Friends sailed from England carrying 101 female convicts bound for the penal colony that was New South Wales. The crimes of the women and girls on board ranged from pickpocketing to murder, but most were convicted of theft. Susannah Noon, not yet in her teens, tried to steal four pairs of cotton stockings from a shop in Colchester. It earned her a sentence of transportation for seven years' 'beyond the seas'. It was a sentence that reverberated throughout her lifetime; she never returned to England. What drove most of these women, young and old, to crime was what helped them to shape new lives in New South Wales - the will to survive.The newly invented society they found themselves in was, in effect, that of an 'open prison'. In 1811, there were only one hundred women in New South Wales who had not arrived as convicted felons. Susannah and her Friends shipmates were free to work and marry. Most of them grabbed the chance for respectability and, in doing so, they became part of the unexpected phenomenon that was transforming a penal outpost to thriving colony. Author Elsbeth Hardie knew nothing of these women when she went in search of them. Susannah and the others remained largely silent and invisible to history. In uncovering their stories, she provides a little-known account of the convict system that prevailed in the early years of transportation to New South Wales and how these women fared.Susannah's journey would take her on to yet another new life in a whaling station in New Zealand, some years before the arrival of that country's first organised colonists. Her story becomes that of the shore-based whaling industry that drew hardened men from around the world to the southern seas and the families they gained.Later still, Susannah becomes a first-hand witness to the events that led to the fight at the Wairau between the land-grabbing New Zealand Company and Te Rauparaha and his followers.
Author | : William Isaac Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Criminals |
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Author | : Elsbeth Hardie |
Publisher | : Australian Scholarly Publishing |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2019-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1925801659 |
In an extraordinary move, in 1797, the British government pressed a small group of French and German prisoners of war into the New South Wales Corps, gave them firearms and placed them as guards on a ship carrying sixty-six convict women and two convict men to New South Wales. The result was a mutiny some months into the voyage in which the captain of the Lady Shore was killed and the fates of all of those on board were tied together when the ship was taken to South America. The true story of what happened to those on board is told here in detail for the first time, in part through the eyes of sailor George Drinkald whose fascinating and articulate first-hand testimony has recently emerged.
Author | : Tessa Duder |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2023-05-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 176104768X |
An exciting new novel from the author of Alex. In September 1840, two ships arrive on the shores of the Waitematā Harbour to establish Auckland, the new capital of New Zealand. Among the settlers on board the Platina is young Harry, travelling alone and determined to return to family in England. But the more immediate challenge is finding food and shelter — and hiding the truth about Harry’s real identity and what was left behind in Van Diemen’s Land.
Author | : Mary Keenan |
Publisher | : GeneralStore PublishingHouse |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781894263276 |
Author | : Dr. Seuss |
Publisher | : RH Childrens Books |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385372035 |
Get in on the Christmas cheer with Dr. Seuss’s iconic holiday classic starring the Grinch and Cindy-Lou Who—guaranteed to grow your heart three sizes! Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot...but the Grinch, who lived just north of Who-ville, did NOT! Not since “’Twas the night before Christmas” has the beginning of a Christmas tale been so instantly recognizable. From the Grinch and his dog, Max, to Cindy-Lou and all the residents of Who-ville, this heartwarming story about the effects of the Christmas spirit will warm even the coldest and smallest of hearts. Like mistletoe, candy canes, and caroling, the Grinch is a mainstay of the holidays, and his story is perfect for readers young and old.
Author | : Francis Fisher Browne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Books |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Marsh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Children's literature |
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Author | : Gene Stratton-Porter |
Publisher | : Xist Publishing |
Total Pages | : 2576 |
Release | : 2016-03-18 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1681958163 |
Romances of the Land from Gene Stratton-Porter This collection includes: A Girl of the Limberlost Freckles The Harvester A Daughter of the Land At the Foot of the Rainbow Her Father's Daughter Laddie: A True Blue Story Michael O'Halloran
Author | : Laura Augusta Yerkes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Children's poetry |
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