Report Addressed to the Marquess Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Classic Reprint)
Report Addressed to the Marquess Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (Classic Reprint)

Author: Elizabeth Fry

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-21

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780484297691

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Excerpt from Report Addressed to the Marquess Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland The salutary effects Of the care which has, of late years, been extended to the subject of prison discipline by the government and legislature of the united king dom, have, for sometime past, been very Obvious in Great Britain, where the prisons have undergone a very extensive improvement; nor have those effects been less remarkable in Ireland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Van Diemen's Women
Van Diemen's Women

Author: Joan Kavanagh

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0750966661

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On 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 December, the ship arrived into Hobart Town. While this book looks at the lives of all the women aboard, it focuses on two women in particular: Eliza Davis, who was transported from Wicklow Gaol for life for infanticide, having had her sentence commuted from death, and Margaret Butler, sentenced to seven years' transportation for stealing potatoes in Carlow. Using original records, this study reveals the reality of transportation, together with the legacy left by these women in Tasmania and beyond, and shows that perhaps, for some, this Draconian punishment was, in fact, a life-saving measure.

The Rise of Caring Power
The Rise of Caring Power

Author: Annemieke van Drenth

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9789053563854

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This original study discusses the role of women in developing and dispersing caring power and, vice-versa, the role of caring power in constituting 'women' as modern social subjects, processes which began around 1800. Based on the historian-/philosopher Foucault's concept of pastoral power, "caring power" also takes into account the vital role played by gender. Both humanitarian and religious motives fostered the ideal of serving the well-being of individual 'others' and thereby the interest of society as a whole. With the rise of caring power, this book argues, women began to feel responsible for 'those of their own sex' and to organize themselves in all-female organizations. In the process they carved out new gender identities for themselves and the women in their care. The authors illustrate this profound historical change with the work of the reformers Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) and Josephine Butler (1828-1906) and trace their impact in Britain and the Netherlands.