Tin Ticket The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women

Name: Tin Ticket The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
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ISBN: 9780425243077

ISBN-10: 0425243079

ISBN-13: 9780425243077

Edition: 2011

Authors: Deborah J. Swiss

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The convict women who built a continent..."A moving and fascinating story." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost The Tin Tickettakes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.31" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Grey-Eyed Girl



Crown of Thieves



The Angel of Newgate



Sweet Sixteen



More Sinned Against Than Sinning



Ludlow's Choice



Liverpool Street



The Yellow C



Flames of Love



Bendigo's Gold


Appendices


Notes


Bibliography


Index