My Australian Story: Surviving Sydney Cove

10th Edition

"ROSE HILL. SATURDAY 3rd April, 1790

Yesterday was Good Friday. Master Henry Dodd gathered his servants together to read “the Lord’s Prayer”. He made us repeat it after him. Sarah says to never tell anyone that I know my letters. She fears that if the officers hear that I can read and write, they might decide to send me elsewhere, and that this would separate us."

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Publisher: Scholastic Australia

Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starving and overworked.

She has to fetch the water, please her master, do all the housework, and look after sickly Emily, and tiptoe around moody Winston. She can barely find time to dream about the way things used to be, much less write in her diary.

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