About the StoryHow could it have come to this? All I did was steal a dress and a bonnet. The magistrate sentenced me to transportation, and the bailiffs put me in chains on board a ship called the Lady Penrhyn...
Beth - The Story of a Child Convict, is an incredibly moving tale inspired by the experiences of Elizabeth Hayward, the youngest female convict on the First Fleet and the journals of naval officer William Bradley and Arthur Bowes Smyth, the surgeon and artist also onboard.
Through Beth's story, we discover the unbearable hardships those first convicts suffered, on the long journey to Sydney Cove and also in the two years following their arrival, where they endured an incredibly hard life and near famine conditions.
Beth - The Story of a Child Convict, is an incredibly moving tale inspired by the experiences of Elizabeth Hayward, the youngest female convict on the First Fleet and the journals of naval officer William Bradley and Arthur Bowes Smyth, the surgeon and artist also onboard.
Through Beth's story, we discover the unbearable hardships those first convicts suffered, on the long journey to Sydney Cove and also in the two years following their arrival, where they endured an incredibly hard life and near famine conditions.