Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls

The story of the 1600 convict women sent to Van Diemen’s Land from 1803 to 1829
Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls is the story of each of the 1600 convict women sent to Van Diemen’s Land (now known as Tasmania) in the first three decades of European settlement. The title comes from the description given to convict Julia Mullins by Surgeon Matthew Burnside. At the end of the voyage from England to Hobart, a clearly exasperated Burnside wrote:

She is a notorious Strumpet and a most dangerous Girl. … The trouble which she gave me is unaccountable, repeatedly I have been obliged to put her into Irons and confined her in the Coal-Hold. … Hard labour or solitary confinement ought to be assigned her.

First published in book form by Angus & Robertson in 1990, Notorious Strumpets is now available as a CD-ROM.

Features:

  • Easy-to-use PDF format
  • More than 1600 fully searchable biographies
  • A gallery of maps, pictures and documents
  • Fully searchable and printable
  • An introductory essay on the lives of Tasmania's convict women
  • A 'highlights' section, on some of the more fascinating, unusual and extreme events featured in these biographies.
  • A comprehensive bibliography and source list
  • Audio readings from a selection of important documents
  • Professional and attractive presentation


[This is] a book written with immense scholarship and an eye of pity for all human beings. I have scanned it with admiration. ... I hope and believe the work will be received with acclaim.
Professor Manning Clark, 20 August 1990


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