Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women : Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783

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In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century. Great Britain's forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain�...

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Autor principal: Ziegler, Edith M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women prisoners.
Penal transportation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Prisonnieres > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Women prisoners > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Penal transportation > Maryland > History > 18th century.
Maryland.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
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