{"product_id":"abandoned-women-book-lucy-frost-9781742377605","title":"Abandoned Women","description":"In the early nineteenth century, crofters and villagers streamed into the  burgeoning cities of Scotland, and families splintered. Orphan girls, single  mothers and women on their own all struggled to feed and clothe themselves. For  some, petty theft became a part of life. Any woman deemed 'habite \u0026amp; repute a  thief' might find herself before the High Court of Justiciary, tried for yet  another minor theft and sentenced to transportation 'beyond Seas'.  Lucy Frost  memorably paints the portrait of a boatload of women and their children who  arrived in Hobart in 1838. Instead of serving time in prison, the women were  sent to work as unpaid servants in the houses of settlers. Feisty Scottish  convicts, unaccustomed to bowing and scraping, often irritated their  middle-class employers, who charged them with insolence, or refusing to work, or  getting drunk. A stint in the female factory became their punishment.  Many  women survived the convict system and shaped their own lives once they were  free. They married, had children and found a place in the community. Others,  though, continued to be plagued by errors and disasters until death.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49562533921041,"sku":"GOR005094054","price":18.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49566613471505,"sku":"GOR005497137","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50942492999953,"sku":"GOR011977414","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1742377602.jpg?v=1750723146","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/abandoned-women-book-lucy-frost-9781742377605","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}