Atkinson, Jeff.  Mary Proctor:  Convict Pioneer and Settler.  Kenthurst, NSW:  Rosenberg Publishing, 2005.
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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.  Archaeology 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.
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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.
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Cowley, Trudy.  1858 Valuation Rolls for Southern Tasmania:  including the districts of Franklin and Hobart.  Hobart:  Research Tasmania, 2005.
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Cowley, Trudy.  Alphabetical Listings by Owner and Occupier of the 1858 Valuation Roll for the City of Hobart Town.  Hobart:  Research Tasmania, 2004.
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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.
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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.

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.

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.
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Purtscher, Joyce.  Apprentices and Absconders from Queen's Orphanage Hobart Town 1860-1883.
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Purtscher, Joyce.  Children in Queen's Orphanage Hobart Town 1828-1863.
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Purtscher, Joyce.  Deaths at General Hospital Hobart January 1864 - June 1884.
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Purtscher, Joyce.  Father John Murphy's 'Saddlebag' Records:  Catholic Baptisms Huon District 1855-1864.
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Purtscher, Joyce.  Infants at Queen's Orphanage Hobart 1851-1863.
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Purtscher, Joyce.  More References for Tasmanian Children in Care 1826-1899.
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Purtscher, Joyce.  St Marys Hospital Hobart:  Index to Registers 1841-1862.  Hobart:  Tasmanian Family History Society, 1997.
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Purtscher, Joyce.  Tasmanian Boarded Out (Fostered) Children 1865-1897.
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Purtscher, Joyce.  Tasmanian Industrial Schools and Reformatories.
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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.

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:  Rosenberg Publishing, 2005.
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Tardif, Phillip.  Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls:  Convict women in Van Diemen's Land 1803-1829.  North Ryde, NSW:  Angus & Robertson, 1990.
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Woods, Christine.  The Last Ladies:  Female convicts on the Duchess of Northumberland, 1853.  Hobart:  self-published, 2004.
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