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1 y separately published work icon The Ship Wife Anne Vines , Carindale : Interactive Publications , 2023 26376742 2023 single work novel historical fiction

In Ireland in 1795, young housemaid Elizabeth is arrested and charged with sedition.  

'On the transport ship, confined to the captain's cabin, Elizabeth must please and obey. As the captain's ship wife, she survives one of the most notorious transportation voyages to New South Wales. Six convicts are flogged to death. This so exceeds the usual brutality of transportation that Governor Hunter convenes a magistrates' court to hear charges against the captain. 

'Shunned by her fellow convicts, scorned by free settlers, and pregnant with the captain's child, Elizabeth must establish a home and a life in the rough town of Sydney.  

'The Ship Wife challenges assumptions about female convict history. It tells the story of a real woman's struggle for dignity and independence in an Empire built on slavery and injustice.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Ring of Words : Lyceum Club Writers' Circle Anthology Anne Vines (editor), Tasma Wischer (editor), Richmond : Lyceum Club Writers' Circle , 2018 13998907 2018 anthology poetry short story autobiography
1 Ellery Creek Anne Vines , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2015 2015; (p. 262-271)
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