Elsbeth Hardie Elsbeth Hardie i(15861417 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Was Charlotte Badger a Colonial Renegade? Elsbeth Hardie , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of New Zealand Studies , no. 28 2019; (p. 84-97)

'English convict and ship’s mutineer Charlotte Badger is heralded as New Zealand’s first “white”woman settler, who lived with a Māori chief after her arrival in the Bay of Islands in 1806. Almost nothing written about Badger has been correct. The core of her story has been hiding in plain sight in a contemporary newspaper account that has been misinterpreted by generations of historians. Colourful fictions added by two Australian storytellers further clouded the facts. A ship’s passenger list and logbook reveal Badger’s much more prosaic fate and confirm she did not settle in New Zealand after all.'

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1 y separately published work icon The Passage of the Damned : What Happened to the Men and Women of the Lady Shore Mutiny Elsbeth Hardie , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2019 15861435 2019 single work biography

'In 1797, the British government pressed a small group of French and German prisoners of war into the New South Wales Corps, gave them firearms and placed them as guards on a ship carrying sixty-six convict women and two convict men to New South Wales. The result was a mutiny some months into the voyage.'

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