crime, transportation, and the servitude of female convicts, 1718-1783 Ziegler, Edith Miriam 1944- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. alu 2014 2014 monographic eng 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations. List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Social change, crime, and the law -- Punishment, pleas, and the prospect of exile -- Bound for Maryland -- Arrival in the New World -- Servants and masters -- Escape -- Going home and staying on -- Mary Nobody in the republic of virtue -- Appendix 1: Statistical information on convict women -- Appendix 2: List of convict women's occupations -- Appendix 3: Privy council resolution, 1615 -- Appendix 4: Transportation act of 1718 -- Appendix 5: Crimes punished by transportation at the old bailey 1718-1776 -- Appendix 6: Colonial legislation regarding convicts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Edith M. Ziegler. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk--- n-us--- Women prisoners Great Britain History 18th century Penal transportation Maryland History 18th century HV9644 .Z54 2014eb 364.3/74097309033 Ziegler, Edith Miriam. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014] (DLC)17887243 9780817387495 (e-book) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10845671 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10845671 CaPaEBR 130916 ebr10845671 eng