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A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal by Babette Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Traces their stories, presenting us with a patchwork image of individual lives that are both rich and varied, and often poignantly tragic. We encounter their despair at being parted from their families, their experience of assigned service in the colony, their marriages, for good or bad, and their oppor ...Show more
Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era by Babette Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australiana
Babette Smith traces the stories of hundreds of convicts over the 80 years of convict transportation to Australia, and rewrites the story of Australia's convict foundations, revealing the involvement of British politicians and clergy in creating a birthstain that reached far beyond convict crimes.
Defiant Voices: How Australia’s Female Convicts Challenged Authority 1788–1853 by Babette Smith
$44.99 AUD
$49.99 (10% off)
Category: History
Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of outrage at their vulgarity, their depravity and their promiscuity. Babette Smith takes the reader beyond this traditional casting of convict women, looking for evidence of th ...Show more
The Luck of the Irish by Babette Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The author of the bestselling Cargo of Women and Australia's Birthstain tracks the lives of Irish convicts who arrived in Australia the mid-1800s, uncovering a longlasting influence of the Irish convicts on our national character.
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