The exiles, Christina Baker Kline
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The exiles, Christina Baker Kline
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The exiles
Responsibility statement
Christina Baker Kline
Summary
London, 1840. Evangeline lost more than just her position as a governess when she was accused of stealing, realising she was pregnant by her employer's son. Having languished in Newgate prison for months in her condition, she is now destined for a prison ship heading to Australia. On board, Evangeline befriends Hazel, sentenced to seven years' transport for theft. Soon Hazel's path will cross with an orphaned indigenous girl. Mathinna is 'adopted' by the new governor of Tasmania where the family treat her more like a curiosity than a child. Amid hardships and cruelties, new life will take root in stolen soil, friendships will define lives, and some will find their place in a new society in the land beyond the seas
Target audience
adult
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Genre
Subject
- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Exiles -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Women prisoners -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Convict ships -- Fiction
- Women convicts -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Penal transportation -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Tasmania -- Social conditions -- 1803-1900 -- Fiction
- Pregnant women -- Fiction
Content
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- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Exiles -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Women prisoners -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Convict ships -- Fiction
- Women convicts -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Penal transportation -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Tasmania -- Social conditions -- 1803-1900 -- Fiction
- Pregnant women -- Fiction
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