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Scottish convicts exiled beyond the seas..

In the early 19th century,crofters and villagers streamed into the burgeoning cities of Scotland,and families splintered.. Orphan girls,single mothers and women on their own all struggled to feed and clothe themselves.For some,petty theft became part of life.Any woman deemed 'habite & repute a thief" might find herself before the High Court of Justiciary,tried for yet another minor theft and sentenced to transportation 'beyond Seas'.. Lucy Frost paints the portrait of a boatload of women and their children who arrived in Hobart in 1838..

• Superb research and sympathetic reconstructions of 19th century Scotland and Australia really bring this book to life.A long-forgotten but facinating group of women..

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