Queen's Orphanage Hobart Town 1828-1879

Publication Resource Details

Author
Purtscher, Joyce
Secondary Author
Female Factory Research Group
Publication Date
2007
URL
http://web.archive.org/web/20110217022158/http://femalefactory.com.au/FFRG/pdfs/QOS.pdf
Description
This paper was presented to a meeting of the Female Factory Resource Group in November 2007. It includes a long passage describing the institution in 1849, a transcription of a dispatch by Lieut-Governor Sir W Denision to Earl Grey in 1849.

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