Convict Women

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Investigating the identities of Australian female convicts, this book begins with the story of Maria Lord - convict, "whore", pioneer family woman, successful entrepreneur and abandoned wife, whose life illustrates many of the central themes of convict women's history in Australia. The study looks beyond the conventional images to draw a surprising picture of these women's experience. Neither passive victims, damned whores or God's police, these women and the choices they made, and had made for them, reveal much about the richness and complexity of a new-born community.

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Kay Daniels is the co-editor of Uphill All the Way: A Documentary History of Women in Australia (1980) and the editor of So Much Hard Work: Women and Prostitution in Australian History (1984).