1 'Fully ripe for transportation'
2 'Transported beyond seas'
3 Deaths in the Female Factory
4 Finding a bearable place
5 'These rebellious hussies'
6 Taking the children away
7 Orphans of the Atwick
8 Motherhood under sentence
9 The vagaries of freedom
10 The last survivors
Epilogue
List of the Scottish convicts on the Atwick
Acknowledgements
A note on sources
Select bibliography
Index
LUCY FROST has spent a career researching and writing about nineteenth-century women. She is the author of No Place for a Nervous Lady and other books on women's experience.
'Her superb research and sympathetic reconstructions of nineteenth-century Scotland and Australia bring to life a long-forgotten but fascinating group of women.' - Sian Rees, author of The Floating Brothel..
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