The Tin Ticket

by Swiss, Deborah J.

• ISBN13: 9780425243077
• ISBN10: 0425243079
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-01
• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group

Summary

The convict women who built a continent..."A moving and fascinating story." -Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost The Tin Tickettakes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The Grey-Eyed Girl	p. 1
Crown of Thieves	p. 31
The Angel of Newgate	p. 59
Sweet Sixteen	p. 83
More Sinned Against Than Sinning	p. 119
Ludlow's Choice	p. 149
Liverpool Street	p. 175
The Yellow C	p. 207
Flames of Love	p. 233
Bendigo's Gold	p. 265
Appendices	p. 289
Notes	p. 317
Bibliography	p. 335
Index	p. 349
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