Van Diemen'S Women: A History Of Transportation To Tasmania

While this book looks at the lives of all the women aboard, it focuses on two women in particular: Eliza Davis, who was transported from Wicklow Gaol for life for infanticide, having had her sentence commuted from death, and Margaret Butler, sentenced to seven years' transportation for stealing potatoes in Carlow.

• | By (Author): Joan Kavanagh
• | Publisher: The History Press Ltd
• | Publication Date: Oct 05, 2015
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1845888855
• | ISBN-13: 9781845888855