Abandoned Women Australian marsupials while Fanny famously challenged the

while Fanny famously challenged the false declaration of Indigenous Tasmanian extinction

and Max Ernst

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

Hobart from 7 June – 3 November 2019

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

Abandoned Women Australian marsupials while Fanny famously challenged theFrom 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.