Historical NotesApologies to South Australia for not acknowledging that you were the first state to give women the vote (in 1894).
Peter Lalor, who featured in Antipodean Queen 1: Heart of Brass and the short interactive story After the Flag Fell really did lose an arm after the Eureka Stockade battle, and then married and became a politician—losing (“re-defining”) his democratic beliefs along the way. The Female Factory is a real Victorian-era women’s prison near Hobart, some parts of which are open to modern tourists.
Henrietta Dugdale is one of many Victorian Australian feminists who worked hard to give women the vote in her state. She was divorced at the time this story is set.
My own imaginary world, although similar to our own, has some crucial differences. In the late 1700s, Made
