Van Diemen's Women A History of Transportation to Tasmania Catalogue several key politicians and even

several key politicians and even Lady Jane Franklin

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Author Kristyn Harman offers insights into penal servitude in Van Diemen’s Land as revealed through the lived experiences of the men and sole woman transported from New Zealand

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Van Diemen's Women A History of Transportation to Tasmania Catalogue several key politicians and evenOn 2 September 1845 the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 December the ship arrived into Hobart. While the book looks at the lives of all the women 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