It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Van Diemen's Women by Joan Kavanagh
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
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...
Van Diemen's Women by Joan Kavanagh is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.
This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Van Diemen's Women aloud.
Van Diemen's Women is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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