Takes readers to the dawn of the 19th century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tanzania, who overcame their fates unlike any other women in the world at the time. This is the story of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; and Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day.

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By:   Deborah Swiss
Imprint:   Berkley
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 237mm,  Width: 163mm,  Spine: 31mm
Weight:   590g
ISBN:  

9780425236727

ISBN 10:   0425236722
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   October 2010
Audience:   General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock at Abbey's Bookshop
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The Tin Ticket, written by Harvard-educated genders affairs expert Deborah J. Swiss and published by Berkley, is a wonderful book. It illuminates a part of history that long has been overlooked, in a manner that holds the reader fast to his or her seat from the exciting introduction to the present day end of the story. In the early nineteenth century, the British government sought to build up the working class of their new Australian colony, where men outnumbered women nine to one. They did this by enforcing an old law which allowed the deportation of women convicted of petty crimes, and packed them into filthy, disease-infected slave ships that carried the ones who survived to the other side of the world . The Tin Ticket (named for the card of tin tied around the necks of the convicts) is told through the eyes of the women and children shipped to Van Diemen's Land, later to be renamed Tasmania, whose horrendous journey of four months and miraculous survival has long been neglecte

The Irish feature in disproportionate numbers among the convicts transported to Australia. The number of female Irish convicts rose considerably in the aftermath of the great Irish Famine, a period which also saw the transportation of more than 4,000 Irish orphans girls as breeding stock for the new colony. Deborah Swiss brings new light and insight into the story of female convicts transported to Australia and in telling this story through the lives of a number of individual women brings home to us both the tragedy and the triumph of these resilient women. <br> -M irt n Fain n, Ambassador of Ireland <br> Deborah Swiss eloquently and engagingly uncovers a buried and important piece of Australian herstory, convicted women who endured injustice, cruelty, and hardship. Even more than that, Swiss skillfully illuminates their essence in their extraordinary resilience, determination, and courage. An inspiration to all. <br> -Birute Regine, author of Iron Butterflies: Women Transform

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