Hannah Rigby was a poor Liverpool seamstress, a prisoner and a serial thief. Exiled from her homeland, oppressed by poverty and rigid social mores, used and discarded by a series of men. An ''exemplary'' servant who was fond of a lark - and a single mother determined to keep her family together.<br/><br/>One Free Woman tells the compelling true story of the only female convict to stay in Moreton Bay when the penal settlement closed - a woman who notoriously served three separate sentences of transportation, including two at one of the harshest establishments in the country.<br/><br/>It is a heartbreaking and sensitively told story of a life that was typical of many women of the time struggling against poverty and gender inequality - women whose voices throughout history have seldom been heard.<br/><br/>One Free Woman reveals new information and celebrates a remarkable woman who, despite a lifetime of immeasurable suffering and loss, could still summon the joy to dance until she dropped.