Why, 200 years ago, was a five-year-old girl in Scotland painstakingly embroidering her idea of Australia, and what can ...

What they came up with was evoked in schemes to establish a national penal colony in places like Île-à-Vache, off the coast of Haiti, and Alaska, dubbed “America’s Botany Bay.” ...

When Grace arrives in the sweltering heat of the Botany Bay penal colony, she is moved to the Female Factory where she finds herself at the mercy of the prison guards.

When Grace arrives in the sweltering heat of the Botany Bay penal colony, she is moved to the Female Factory where she finds herself at the mercy of the prison guards.