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Convict lives at the Launceston Female Factory

by Lucy Frost, Alice Meredith Hodgson, Female Convicts Research Centre

This volume examines the experiences of convict women at the Launceston Female Factory in Van Diemen's Land. It uses personal narratives to document how women navigated the nineteenth-century assignment and probation systems.

Accession 15592 ISBN 9780987144348 Publisher Convict Women's Press Inc.
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