Books written by Babette Smith
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A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the convicts of the Princess Royal
... most dreadful acts of atrocity'.4 Nearly 30 years later, writing just after the Princess Royal deposited its cargo at Sydney, Governor Darling claimed, 'The women sent out to this country are of the very worst description, ...
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Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era
Dic Penderyn was glimpsed waving his hat in the air and cheering, but witness after witness revealed that people were watching Lewsyn yr Heliwr not Dic Penderyn. In the melee, Private Donald Black was stabbed through the thigh with a ...
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The Luck of the Irish: How a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new...
The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests.
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The Luck of the Irish: How a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new...
The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That's how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the New South Wales coast in 1835.
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Mothers and Sons
Drawing on extensive interviews, Babette Smith peels away the myths to reveal the truth about mother-son relationships.