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The Girl Who Stole Stockings by Hardie, Elsbeth

ISBN: 9781876467241 PUBLISHER: Australian Teachers of Media

PAGES: 344 PUBLICATION DATE: 1.10.2015 DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 17.4 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: On 8th April 1811 the ship Friends sailed from England carrying 101 female convicts bound for the penal colony of New South Wales. Their crimes ranged from pickpocketing to murder, but most of them had been convicted of theft. Susannah Noon, not yet in her teens, had tried to steal four pairs of cotton stockings, worth ten shillings, from a shop in Colchester. It earned her a sentence of transportation for seven years 'beyond the seas'. It was a sentence that reverberated throughout her lifetime; she never returned to England. Instead Susannah and her shipmates found themselves living in a new land as members of a new and unique society. Their only shackles were the vast ocean and their fear of the unknown. In 1811 there were only one hundred women living in New South Wales who had not arrived as convicted felons. Susannah and the other convict women were expected to work and to marry. Most seized the chance for respectability; some fell victim to further disaster; some continued to lead lives defined by gaol, alcohol and despair. Until now, Susannah and the other women of the Friends have remained largely silent and invisible to history. In uncovering their stories, author Elsbeth Hardie provides a little-known account of the convict system that prevailed in the early years of transportation and how these women fared within it. Susannah was the only one of them to move on to another new life in New Zealand, living in a whal

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