Mary Ann Parker

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Standard Name: Parker, Mary Ann
Birth Name: Mary Ann
Married Name: Mary Ann Parker
MAP 's single publication is a travel book of 1795, remarkable for being the only early female account of circumnavigating the globe, and the earliest reporting by a woman on the new English colony in Australia.

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July 1789: The ship Lady Julia sailed from Portsmouth,...

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July 1789

The ship Lady Julia sailed from Portsmouth, taking 237 female convicts to Botany Bay in Australia, where they were intended to marry and bear children by the so far all-male convict settlers.

Texts

Parker, Mary Ann. A Voyage Round the World. Debrett, Pridden, Wilkie, and Richardson, 1795.
Parker, Mary Ann et al. “A Voyage Round the World”. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies, edited by Deirdre Coleman, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. 169-25.
Parker, Mary Ann. A Voyage Round the World. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria et al. “Two Voyages to Sierra Leone”. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies, edited by Deirdre Coleman, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. 45-168.