Abandoned Women Australian marsupials incredible natural relationships deserve to

incredible natural relationships deserve to be explored and celebrated

Featuring an introduction by well-known Tasmanian art historian

Tony Fenton has woven ground-breaking research into a well-structured and intriguing narrative that reveals an unexpected past alive with people and plans

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and a convict ancestor or an illegitimate birth were shames that families once buried deep

Abandoned Women Australian marsupials incredible natural relationships deserve toFrom the crowded tenements of Edinburgh to the Female Factory nestling in the shadow of Mt Wellington, dozens of Scottish women convicts were exiled to Van Diemen's Land with their young children. This is a rich and evocative account of the lives of women at the bottom of society two hundred years ago. Soft cover edition.