TLF ID M025016
The Cascades Female Factory was both a prison and a factory for female convicts in early Hobart. It was a place where convict women were forced to undertake labour in slave-like conditions to support the fledgling colony. Learn what life at the Female Factory was like for the inmates. What sort of work did the women do? John explains that well-behaved male convicts at Port Arthur could learn one of forty trades. How does that compare with the opportunities available to female convicts?