Female Convicts Down Under: Fact and Fiction
June 21 @ 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM BST
Free – £5.00
Between 1787 and 1850, over 160,000 convicts were sent from Britain to penal colonies in Australia.
Mary Ellen will examine the history of female transportation to Australia with a focus on the romantic biographies of Mary Bryant and Margaret Catchpole.