One Free Woman

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2025
Edition: First Edition

Description: 331 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Hannah Rigby was a poor Liverpool seamstress, a prisoner and a serial thief. Exiled from her homeland, oppressed by poverty and rigid social mores, used and discarded by a series of men. An exemplary servant who was fond of a lark “ and a single mother determined to keep her family together.One Free Woman tells the true, compelling story of the only female convict to stay in Moreton Bay when the penal settlement closed “ a woman who notoriously served three separate sentences of transportation, including two to one of the harshest establishments in the country.It is a heartbreaking and sensitively told story of a life that was typical of many women of the time struggling against poverty and gender inequality “ women whose voices throughout history have seldom been heard. One Free Woman reveals new information and celebrates a remarkable woman who, despite a lifetime of immeasurable suffering and loss, could somehow still summon the joy to dance until she dropped.

ISBN: 9781923144712