Atkinson Jeffrey Jeff (1 results)

Paperback small octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos centre spread, minor edgewear. 211 pp. This biography by Jeff Atkinson is the true story of a woman who was transported to Australia as a convict in the 1820s. Mary Proctor was not a significant historical figure. However she represents the thousands of people, mainly convicts and former convicts, who settled this country in the first wave of white migration. By reading her story we gain a unique insight into what life was like for ordinary people in those times. The biography includes her imprisonment and trial in England, transportation by sea to Van Diemen's Land, her time as a female convict and as a pioneer settler in Tasmania, and later as a poor resident of early Melbourne before and during the Gold Rush.…