Abandoned Women: Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas by Lucy Frost

Abandoned Women: Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas

Lucy Frost

240 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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In the early 19th century, crofters and villagers streamed into the burgeoning cities of Scotland, and families splintered. Orphan girls, single mothers, and women on their own all struggled to feed and clothe themselves. For some, petty theft bec...

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