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Sydney: The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd, 1988.. ISBN 0 949757 46 2. First edition. Foreword by Manning Clark. Preface by Professor Di Yerbury. 8vo, xv + 344 pp, contemporary terms and expressions, convict ships, b&w illustrations, women transported to New South Wales, list of women transported fr. om England, 1788-1827, list of women transported from Ireland, 1971-Jan 1828, index. Original green cloth in dustwrapper faded at spine and at upper edge rear panel with nick at lower front flap fold. Very good. INSCRIBED by author at half title pa. ge and SIGNED and dated by author at title page (To Sally with very best wishes, Portia). A history of the European women who came to New South Wales as convicted felons or as the free wives of convicts. .