'Finding love early on her arrival in the new colony, Mary went on to develop a family business which grew to include a fleet of merchant vessels. 'It was the beginning of a 60-plus year story of bravery and tenacity - within two decades Mary would overcome the stigma of her convict past to become the richest woman in colonial Australia. 'In 1791, teenage runaway and sometime horse thief Mary Reibey narrowly escaped the English gallows with transportation to the brutal new penal colony at Sydney Cove. ' The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first female entrepreneur and the most powerful woman in colonial history Sydney: HarperCollins Australia, 2023 25996248 2023 single work biography Abstract 1 y The Remarkable Mrs Reibey Grantlee Kieza,
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