Download or read book The Girl Who Stole Stockings written by Elsbeth Hardie and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 8th April 1811, the ship Friends sailed from England carrying 101 female convicts bound for the penal colony that was New South Wales. The crimes of the women and girls on board ranged from pickpocketing to murder, but most were convicted of theft. Susannah Noon, not yet in her teens, tried to steal four pairs of cotton stockings from a shop in Colchester. It earned her a sentence of transportation for seven years' 'beyond the seas'. It was a sentence that reverberated throughout her lifetime; she never returned to England. What drove most of these women, young and old, to crime was what helped them to shape new lives in New South Wales - the will to survive.The newly invented society they found themselves in was, in effect, that of an 'open prison'. In 1811, there were only one hundred women in New South Wales who had not arrived as convicted felons. Susannah and her Friends shipmates were free to work and marry. Most of them grabbed the chance for respectability and, in doing so, they became part of the unexpected phenomenon that was transforming a penal outpost to thriving colony. Author Elsbeth Hardie knew nothing of these women when she went in search of them. Susannah and the others remained largely silent and invisible to history. In uncovering their stories, she provides a little-known account of the convict system that prevailed in the early years of transportation to New South Wales and how these women fared.Susannah's journey would take her on to yet another new life in a whaling station in New Zealand, some years before the arrival of that country's first organised colonists. Her story becomes that of the shore-based whaling industry that drew hardened men from around the world to the southern seas and the families they gained.Later still, Susannah becomes a first-hand witness to the events that led to the fight at the Wairau between the land-grabbing New Zealand Company and Te Rauparaha and his followers.
Download or read book The Unadjusted Girl written by William Isaac Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Passage of the Damned written by Elsbeth Hardie and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an extraordinary move, in 1797, the British government pressed a small group of French and German prisoners of war into the New South Wales Corps, gave them firearms and placed them as guards on a ship carrying sixty-six convict women and two convict men to New South Wales. The result was a mutiny some months into the voyage in which the captain of the Lady Shore was killed and the fates of all of those on board were tied together when the ship was taken to South America. The true story of what happened to those on board is told here in detail for the first time, in part through the eyes of sailor George Drinkald whose fascinating and articulate first-hand testimony has recently emerged.
Download or read book The Sparrow written by Tessa Duder and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting new novel from the author of Alex. In September 1840, two ships arrive on the shores of the Waitematā Harbour to establish Auckland, the new capital of New Zealand. Among the settlers on board the Platina is young Harry, travelling alone and determined to return to family in England. But the more immediate challenge is finding food and shelter — and hiding the truth about Harry’s real identity and what was left behind in Van Diemen’s Land.
Download or read book Molly written by Mary Keenan and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How the Grinch Stole Christmas written by Dr. Seuss and published by RH Childrens Books. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get in on the Christmas cheer with Dr. Seuss’s iconic holiday classic starring the Grinch and Cindy-Lou Who—guaranteed to grow your heart three sizes! Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot...but the Grinch, who lived just north of Who-ville, did NOT! Not since “’Twas the night before Christmas” has the beginning of a Christmas tale been so instantly recognizable. From the Grinch and his dog, Max, to Cindy-Lou and all the residents of Who-ville, this heartwarming story about the effects of the Christmas spirit will warm even the coldest and smallest of hearts. Like mistletoe, candy canes, and caroling, the Grinch is a mainstay of the holidays, and his story is perfect for readers young and old.
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Download or read book Gene Stratton Porter Collection A Girl of the Limberlost Freckles Laddie The Harvester A Daughter of the Land At the Foot of the Rainbow Her Fatther s Daughter Michale O Halloran written by Gene Stratton-Porter and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 2576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romances of the Land from Gene Stratton-Porter This collection includes: A Girl of the Limberlost Freckles The Harvester A Daughter of the Land At the Foot of the Rainbow Her Father's Daughter Laddie: A True Blue Story Michael O'Halloran
Download or read book Recitations for Boys and Girls written by Laura Augusta Yerkes and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Things Seen Choses Vues written by Victor Hugo and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Victor Hugo. A facsimile reprint from the "Edition de Luxe" (limited to 1,000 copies).
Download or read book Works written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Things Seen written by Victor Hugo and published by New York, Harper. This book was released on 1887 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Land of Green Plums written by Herta Müller and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of a group of Romanian students under Communism, with its poverty, regimentation and depressing greyness. Life gets no better after graduation, so much so that several commit suicide.
