Publications

We have compiled a list of publications relevant to research into female factories, convicts and Tasmanian history. Several of the following publications are available for purchase through the Site Shop. Many of the publications have been written by members of the Female Factory Research Group — these are indicated in purple.

We hope you find this list useful.

We have also compiled a list of research projects being undertaken by Female Factory Research Group members.

Publications

	Atkinson, Jeff. Mary Proctor: Convict Pioneer and Settler. Kenthurst, NSW: Rosenburg Publishing, 2005. (more information)
	Bartlett, Anne. 'The Launceston Female Factory', THRA Papers & Proceedings, Vol.41, 1994, pp.114–124.
	Barwick, C.M. Female Convict Discipline: A study of the House of Correction of Females, Hobart 1838–1844. B.Ed. Dissertation, Division of Teacher Education, TCAE, 1979.
	Brand, Ian. The Convict Probation System: Van Diemen's Land 1839–1854. Hobart: Blubber Head Press, 1990.
	Brown, Joan C. 'Poverty is not a Crime': The Development of Social Services in Tasmania 1803–1900. Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1972.
	Casella, Eleanor Conlin. Archaelogy of the Ross Female Factory Female Incarceration in Van Diemen's Land, Australia. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston No.108, 2002.
	Cowley, Trudy. 1858 Valuation Rolls for Central & Eastern Tasmania: including the districts of Bothwell, Brighton, Campbell Town, Fingal, Glamorgan, Hamilton, New Norfolk, Oatlands, Richmond and Spring Bay. Hobart: Research Tasmania, 2004. (more information)
	Cowley, Trudy. 1858 Valuation Rolls for Northern Tasmania: including Launceston Town and the districts of Deloraine, Devon, George Town, Horton, Launceston, Longford, Morven, Port Sorell and Westbury. Hobart: Research Tasmania, 2004. (more information)
	Cowley, Trudy. 1858 Valuation Rolls for Southern Tasmania: including the districts of Franklin and Hobart. Hobart: Research Tasmania, 2005. (more information)
	Cowley, Trudy. Alphabetical Listings by Owner and Occupier of the 1858 Valuation Roll for the City of Hobart Town. Hobart: Research Tasmania, 2004. (more information)
	Cowley, Trudy. A Drift of 'Derwent Ducks': Lives of the 200 female Irish convicts transported on the Australasia from Dublin to Hobart in 1849. Hobart: Research Tasmania, 2005. (more information)
	Cuffley, Peter (ed.). Send the Boy to Sea: The Memoirs of a Sailor on the Goldfields by James Montagu Smith. Noble Park: The Five Mile Press, 2001.
	Daniels, Kay. 'The Flash Mob: Rebellion, Rough Culture and Sexuality in the Female Factories of Van Diemen's Land', Australian Feminist Studies. Vol.18, 1993, pp.133–150.
	Daniels, Kay. Convict Women. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1998.
	Frost, Lucy. 'Eliza Churchill tells ...', in Lucy Frost & Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (eds), Chain Letters: Narrating convict lives. Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2001, pp.79–90.
	Frost, Lucy with Christopher Downes. Footsteps and Voices: A historical look into the Cascades Female Factory. Hobart: Cascades Female Factory Historic Site, 2004. (available from the FFHS Site Shop)
	Heath, Laurel May. The female convict factories of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land: A examination of their role in the control, punishment and reformation of prisoners between 1804 and 1854. M.A. Thesis, Australian National University, 1978.
	Hyland, Jeanette. Maids Masters and Magistrates. Blackmans Bay: Clan Hogarth Publishing, 2007. (contact the author)
	Lennox, G. R. 'A private and confidential despatch of Eardley Wilmot: Implications, comparisons and associations concerning the probation system for convict women', THRA Papers & Proceedings. Vol.29, No.2, pp.80–92.
	MacFarlane, Fiona. Quirky Names in Tasmanian History. Hobart: self-published, 2006. (more information)
	Mickleborough, Leonie. William Sorell in Van Diemen's Land: Lieutenant-Governor, 1817-24. A Golden Age? Hobart: Blubber Head Press, 2004.
	Purtscher, Joyce. Applications for Queen's Orphanage Hobart Town 1858-1878. (contact the author)
	Purtscher, Joyce. Apprentices and Absconders from Queen's Orphanage Hobart Town 1860–1883. (contact the author)
	Purtscher, Joyce. Children in Queen's Orphanage Hobart Town 1828–1863. (contact the author)
	Purtscher, Joyce. Deaths at General Hospital Hobart January 1864–June 1884. (contact the author)
	Purtscher, Joyce. Father John Murphy's 'Saddlebag' Records: Catholic Baptisms Huon District 1855–1864. (contact the author)
	Purtscher, Joyce. Infants at Queen's Orphanage Hobart 1851–1863. (contact the author)
	Purtscher, Joyce. More References for Tasmanian Children in Care 1826–1899. (contact the author)
	Purtscher, Joyce. St Marys Hospital Hobart: Index to Registers 1841–1862. Hobart: Tasmanian Family History Society, 1997. (contact the author)
	Purtscher, Joyce. Tasmanian Boarded Out (Fostered) Children 1865–1897. (contact the author)
	Purtscher, Joyce. Tasmanian Industrial Schools and Reformatories. (contact the author)
	Rayner, Tony. Female factory, female convicts. Dover: Esperance Press, 2005.
	Rayner, Tony. Historical Survey of the Ross Female Factory Site Tasmania. Hobart: National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1980.
	Rayner, Tony. Historical Survey of the Female Factory Historic Site, Cascades, Hobart. Hobart: National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1981.
	Schaffer, Irene & Purtscher, Joyce. The Sick & Poor in Tasmania 1870: Persons in receipt of public aid. (contact the author)
	Scripps, Lindy & Clark, Julia. The Ross Female Factory Tasmania—A report for the Department of Parks, Wildlife and Heritage. Hobart: Public History Partners, April 1991.
	Scripps, Lindy & Hudspeth, Audrey. The Female Factory Historic Site, Cascades: Historical Report—A report for the Department of Parks, Wildlife and Heritage. October 1992.
	Smith, Babette. A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson & the Convicts of the Princess Royal. Kenthurst, NSW: Rosenburg Publishing, 2005. (more information)
	Tardif, Phillip. Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls: Convict women in Van Diemen's Land 1803–1829. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1990. (now available on CD)
	Woods, Christine. The Last Ladies: Female convicts on the Duchess of Northumberland, 1853. Hobart: self-published, 2004. (more information)

Research Projects

	Gai Anderson has been engaged by Terrapin Puppet Theatre to write a puppet play for schools called Con Artists. It is about convicts, artists and conmen in early Hobart. Most of the main characters will be children. The puppet play will tour Tasmanian schools in 2007.
	Trudy Cowley is indexing Memorials for Indulgences of Convicts, 1 September 1833 to 31 October 1864 held at the Archives Office of Tasmania (CON 44). A partial index is available.
	Trudy Cowley & Dianne Snowden are researching and writing a book on the female convicts transported on Rajah. More information.
	Lorraine & Des Wootton, Peter Cox (and other members of the George Town Historical Society) are identifying and collecting convict records for all female convicts who spent time at George Town Female Factory 1830–1834 (ie, those not covered in Philip Tardif's book Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls). They will enter this information into our Female Family Founders Database.
	Joyce Purtscher is creating a comprehensive index of names of people institutionalised in invalid depots, benevolent asylums, charitable institutions, orphanages, etc from the extant records.
	Sue Wyatt is indexing the Ticket-of-Leave convicts mustered in the Sorell district.
	Dianne Snowden is compiling information donated to the Female Factory Research Group by Geoff Lennox on female convicts who spent time at Richmond Gaol.
	Meryl Yost is indexing Registers of Convicts' Deaths held at the Archives Office of Tasmania (CON 63/1/1–2). These registers cover the period 10 June 1840 to 5 July 1874. These registers list the names, ship, date and place of death of convicts who died whilst still under sentence.
	Maureen Martin is compiling a database of all convicts who lived or worked in the Glamorgan/Spring Bay district.
	Dianne Snowden and Joan Kavenagh are researching and writing a book on the female convicts who arrived on the Tasmania (2).