![]() ![]() ![]() Friday finds a way to ply her trade with the ship’s crew, Harriet becomes an assistant to the ship’s doctor, but Rachel is manipulated by the notorious Bella Jackson, and is brutally assaulted by one of the paying passengers. The journey on the convict ship, the Isla, is difficult, but the girls survive by banding together and supporting each other. Soon, all are marked for transport as convicts to New South Wales, Australia. Streetwise prostitute Friday Woolfe, opportunistic thief and trained jeweller Sarah Morgan, seamstress Harriet Clarke and naive young Rachel Winter befriend each other whilst serving time in Newgate Prison, London. And yes, she was mentioned in passing from page 305 onwards. I wanted to read this because I enjoy historical fiction, but also because Ann Gordon, matron of the Female Factory at Parramatta from 1827 to 1836, was my fourth great grandmother. ![]()
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