Essays

Browse essays written by historians for the Female Factory Online.

• Matthew Allen, “Samuel Marsden: A Contested Life,” (2020).
• Michaela Ann Cameron, “Elizabeth Bennett: The Baker’s Wife,” (2017).
• Michaela Ann Cameron, “Factory Above the Gaol, c.1802–1821,” (2015).
• Michaela Ann Cameron, “Hannah Steele: The Gaoler’s Daughter,” (2018).
• Michaela Ann Cameron, “Life and Death at the Parramatta Female Factory: The St. John’s Dataset,” (2018–2022)
  • Introduction: Death’s Door
  • Part I: Births and Baptisms in Custody
  • Part II: Deaths in Custody
• Michaela Ann Cameron, “Mary Cavillon: Homemaker, Housebreaker,” (2021)
• Michaela Ann Cameron, “Nicholas Cavillon: ‘A Hardened Villain,'” (2021)
• Michaela Ann Cameron, “Parramatta Female Factory, 1821–1848,” (2015).
• Alexander Cameron-Smith, “‘He was a clever chiel, Geordie, tae be only a weaver’: George Mealmaker,” (2021)
• Alexander Cameron-Smith, “‘The Indifferent Characters of Many of the Females’: Mary Leeche and Colonial Controversy in the 1830s,” (2021)
• Catie Gilchrist, “D’Arcy Wentworth: A Gentleman Rogue,” (2021)
• Catie Gilchrist, “Mystery Always Begets Suspicion”: Defending the Open and Public Nature of the Coronial Inquest,” (2018).
• Jennifer McLaren, “Sarah Bell: Female Factory Matron,” (2019).
• Briony Neilson, “Josephine Mercelin: Convicts, Slaves and the Global Entanglements of New South Wales and Mauritius,” (2019).