Book of the Month: The Tin Ticket
THE TIN TICKET: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women AUTHOR: Deborah J. Swiss PUBLISHER: Berkeley Publishing PUB DATE: October 2010 This month's Book of the Month is THE TIN TICKET: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women. Since March is Women's History Month, and the theme this year is Survivors, I thought it more than appropriate. The only convict's story that I was familiar with before reading this book was Mary Bryant's, a young Cornish woman, who managed to escape the penal colony and make her way back to the UK. These are the untold stories of the women who were not able to do that.You can find out more at the author's website: http://www.deborahswiss.com/ Synopsis: Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time. Agnes McMillan and Janet H...