The Ship Wife

ISBN-13: 9781922830241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 244 str.

Anne Vines

Opis

In 1795 Ireland, young housemaid Elizabeth is arrested, charged and convicted of sedition. On the transport ship, confined to the captains cabin, Elizabeth must please and obey him. As his ship wife, she survives one of the most notorious transportation voyages to New South Wales. Six convicts are flogged to death. This so exceeds the usual brutality of transportation that Governor Hunter convenes a magistrates court to hear charges against the captain. Shunned by her fellow convicts, scorned by free settlers, and pregnant with the captains child, Elizabeth must establish a home and a life in rough Sydney Town. The Ship Wife challenges assumptions about female convict history. It tells the story of a real womans struggle for dignity and independence in an empire built on slavery and injustice.