Pandora Archive - Preserving and Accessing Networked DOcumentary Resources of Australia

Top10Links - best web sites in over 1000 categories! Find the top web sites fast! CoraWeb LibrarySpot.com: Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries & more. Department of Justice, Victoria Biblioteca Virtual WWW Gould Genealogy: Australia Gen & Local Hist Store Australian Female Convict Database August 10, 2014 The female convicts are pronounced,……………………….. matter, to be the vainest of the vain daughters of Mother Eve. The dresses served out to the convicts are constant sources of annoyance to them, and many an hour is spent touching up and altering. At an English prison, some years since, a female convict was discovered to be in possession of three tallow candles, which, if they had not been missed, would no doubt have been utilised as pomade. Periodically the hinges of the cell-doors are oiled, and, strange as it may seem, convicts have been detected wiping the oil off and putting it on their hair. One woman created quite a sensation among the female convicts in Woking Prison by reason of the brilliancy of the color of her cheeks and lips, many of her fellow prisoners became most envious, and exercised every land of blandishment in order to induce the fortunate one to part with her secret—but in vain.

Judy Webster: Queensland The Ryerson Index