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  • Dedication: For Barbara Macfarlan, my mother.
  • Epigraph: Is it so small a thing / To have enjoyed the sun, / To have lived light in the spring, / To have loved, to have thought, to have done...? Matthew Arnold
  • Based on Smith's non-fiction study A Cargo of Women : Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal (1988).

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y separately published work icon A Cargo of Women : Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal Babette Smith , Kensington : University of New South Wales Press , 1988 Z1563274 1988 single work biography

'A Cargo of Women traces the chequered story of one hundred women transported together in 1829 on the ship Princess Royal. ... Through imaginative use of detailed research, Babette Smith presents a patchwork image of individual lives that are both rich and varied, and often poignantly tragic. ... Framing them all is the story of the indomitable Susannah Watson ...'

Includes correspondence written by Susannah Watson to her daughter in England.

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History Dianne Dempsey , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 16 July 2005; (p. 6)
— Review of A Cargo of Women : The Novel Babette Smith , 1991 single work novel
Forecasts Claire Mills , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , May vol. 70 no. 1015 1991; (p. 19)
— Review of A Cargo of Women : The Novel Babette Smith , 1991 single work novel
Historic Payload Settles into a Good Yarn Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 July 1991; (p. rev 4)
— Review of A Cargo of Women : The Novel Babette Smith , 1991 single work novel ; Revolution by Night, or, Katjala Wananu (The Son after the Father): A Story of the Central Deserts Together with the Monograph Written by Jack Terrence Dutruc and Entitled "Interior" an Analysis of Hieroglyphs in Australian Art, and Its Perspectives James Bardon , 1991 single work novel ; Henry Handel Richardson : Fiction in the Making Axel Clark , 1990 single work biography ; Memories of a Country Childhood Judith Wallace , 1977 single work autobiography
History Dianne Dempsey , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 16 July 2005; (p. 6)
— Review of A Cargo of Women : The Novel Babette Smith , 1991 single work novel
Historic Payload Settles into a Good Yarn Penelope Nelson , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 July 1991; (p. rev 4)
— Review of A Cargo of Women : The Novel Babette Smith , 1991 single work novel ; Revolution by Night, or, Katjala Wananu (The Son after the Father): A Story of the Central Deserts Together with the Monograph Written by Jack Terrence Dutruc and Entitled "Interior" an Analysis of Hieroglyphs in Australian Art, and Its Perspectives James Bardon , 1991 single work novel ; Henry Handel Richardson : Fiction in the Making Axel Clark , 1990 single work biography ; Memories of a Country Childhood Judith Wallace , 1977 single work autobiography
Forecasts Claire Mills , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , May vol. 70 no. 1015 1991; (p. 19)
— Review of A Cargo of Women : The Novel Babette Smith , 1991 single work novel
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