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reported "The female prisoners brought out in this ship appear to be of a much better character than usual; their behaviour during the voyage was very good, doubtless in a great degree the result of the indefatigable care which appears to have been exercised both with reference to their morality and
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The Ladies of the
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What a strange position mine has been as a child. Though separated from my mother when very young I treasured her memory with idolatrous love though often my heart felt broken with what seemed to be her forgetfulness of me and I believed her to be everything that a christian ought to be - alas the
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The prisoners in the 'Rajah' were peculiarly favoured. A clergyman … went out in that ship as a passenger; and… the free passengers, the crew, and the prisoners, were assembled, as far as their several circumstances would admit, on the evening of each passing day, for the purpose of prayer and
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Three days after Hayter's arrival in the colony, Lady Jane
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Committee are anxious should be rightly appreciated — the Holy
Scriptures." It is unclear how many of the 180 female convicts contributed to the quilt (it has been speculated to be around 29) but by the end of the journey the project had been successfully completed.
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praise. Besides the advantage which the prisoners derived from the instruction given by the clergyman, they were also under the superintendence of a female of superior attainments, who had previously been an officer at the
General Penitentiary…
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together. Hayter wanted the education and reform of prisoners, but
Franklin wanted stricter treatment and humiliation; because of this, rumors quickly began to circulate that Franklin intended to introduce the Millbank System to the factory.
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Charles this day twelthmonth in a walk with you on the poop of the Rajah you told me to make an entry in my journal to this effect that my fate was linked with yours and you bid me look at it at some future time to see if it were
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and his wife Lady Jane
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in 1852. She continued her community work as a member of the
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bitterness this disappointment cost me God only knows.
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The Hobart Town Courier and Van Diemen's Land Gazette
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Feminist and prison reformer in Australia, 1818–1885
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My Name is Lizzie Flynn: A Story of the Rajah Quilt
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538:. Hobart, Tasmania: Research Tasmania. p. 26.
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290:Hayter became engaged to the Captain of the
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