"Bridget 'Biddy' Judge: the highs and lows of convict motherhood" explores the life of a young Irish convict woman raising her family in early colonial Tasmania. This chapter appears in Convict Lives: Mothers’ trials and triumphs, an anthology of short stories about the varied lives of convict women in the colony of Van Diemen’s Land. Published by the Convict Women's Press in Hobart, you can now purchase a copy here:

Convict Women’s Press: Mothers’ trials and triumphs