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Repression, reform & resilience : a history of the Cascades Female Factory
Title:
Repression, reform & resilience : a history of the Cascades Female Factory / edited by Alison Alexander.
Publication:
Hobart, TAS : Convict Women's Press Inc., [2016]
Physical description:
264 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"A highlight of this book is the 70 stories of people connected with the Factory, written by members of our sister group, the Female Convicts Research Centre. These contributors come from all over the world, from Hobart to Scotland and Nevada, showing the wide interest there exists in female convicts and their fascinating lives."--Publisher's preface.

Includes bibliography (pages 255-258) and index.
Contents:
Publisher's preface / Dr Nicola Goc -- Introduction / Alison Alexander -- 1. Before the female factories, 1814-1822 -- 2. The Hobart Town Female Factory -- 3. The Cascades Female Factory is established -- 4. Problems in the 1830s -- 5. Life and death at Cascades - from inquest records -- 6. The 1841 inquiry into the Factory -- 7. The due course of the law : executions from the Cascades Female Factory -- 8. Domestic service, and attempts to reform or assist female convicts -- 9. The probation system -- 10. The convict nurseries -- 11. The final years of the Cascades Female Factory --12. The Cascades Establishment -- 13. The end of the Cascades Establishment, 1878-1904 -- 'The old women's gaol', 1904-1975 -- Towards World Heritage status.
Summary:
"... tells the history of the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart and the intriguing stories of many of the women who were sent there"--Back cover.
ISBN:
9780995359901 (paperback)

0995359903
Spine label:
Repression, reform & resilience : the Cascades Female Factory
Record ID:
SD_ILS:1211626