{"product_id":"9780425243077","title":"The Tin Ticket","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe convict women who built a continent...\"A moving and fascinating  story.\" --Adam Hochschild, author of \u003ci\u003eKing Leopold's Ghost\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHistorian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tin Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history-who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.","brand":"Deborah J. Swiss","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48035353821396,"sku":"9780425243077","price":19.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_78604de0-a275-4dc4-a847-e095bdc05e68.jpg?v=1780354964","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780425243077","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}