Women Transported: Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories - Exhibition Publication

$35.00

This publication accompanies the exhibition ‘Women Transported: Life in Australia’s convict female factories’ now on display in the Fremantle Prison gallery.

This confronting and inspiring exhibition from the Parramatta Heritage Centre reveals the harsh lives of women who were incarcerated. An estimated one in five Australians has an ancestor who spent time in a convict female factory, although very little material survives from these women.

Their contribution has been largely ignored, yet they are the ‘mothers of the nation’ – women with grit who survived the dire conditions of late 18th and early 19th century colonial Australia.

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