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Convict lives at the Cascades Female Factory

by Alison Alexander, Alice Meredith Hodgson

This book explores Tasmanian penal history through the stories of 33 female convicts who passed through the Cascades Female Factory in Van Diemen's Land between 1828 and 1877.

Accession 15593 ISBN 9780994385918 Publisher Convict Women's Press Inc.
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