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how 'lady swindler' Alexandrina Askew triumphed over the convict stain

Written by: Janet McCalman AC, Emeritus Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, The University of Melbourne

John Skinner Prout's 1849 painting of the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart, Van Dieman's Land, where Alexandrina bore an illegitimate child.Wikimedia Commons

In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages.

“A LADY SWINDLER”, gasped the Illustrated Australian News in November 1867.

It appears that for a length of...

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