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Notorious Strumpets & Dangerous Girls
	Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls was originally published in 1990 as an 1,800-page book. It has long-since been out of print. This was how convict Julia Mullins was described by a government official when she arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1826. Was she that bad? And how typical was she of the many thousands of convict women sent to the Australian colonies nearly 200 years ago? Why were they sent and what happened to them after they arrived? The Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls CD ROM provides some answers to these questions. It tells the story of each of the 1,600 convict women sent to Van Diemen's Land before 1830 - often in their own words through the official records that so closely followed their lives. It shows that their experiences were infinitely diverse. For some their lives were marked with tragedy, others faced brutality; some found a type of redemption, while others spent their lives rebelling against colonial authority. Notorious strumpets or not, what emerges from these stories is a sense of the women's individuality, as they sought to build a new life for themselves in this new land. Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls was originally published in 1990 as an 1,800-page book. It has long-since been out of print. Features include Biographies of all convict women sent to Van Diemen's Land before 1830. The biographies are searchable. Information typically includes their crime, sentence, physical description, agel, literacy, behaviour on the voyage out, offences in Van Diemen's Land, marriage and how they won their freedom. A detailed interpretive essay on what these biographies reveal about the convict experience A gallery of pictures, maps and documents from the period. A reading of the poignant letter that convict Elizabeth Payne wrote to her husband, who she had left in England. Transcripts of select documents, including the rules and regulations of Hobart's Female House of Correction, and an account of the first hanging of a woman in Van Diemen's Land System Requirements: Windows NT/Windows 98 or higher; Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. x, Netscape 4.7, Netscape 7.x; Mozilla 1.x, AOL 8, or Opera 7.11, Flash Player 7, Mac OS 9.x or higher.