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Scatterheart is a 200y HistoricalFiction novel by Lilli Wilkinson. It's 1814 and Hannah Cheshire leads a privileged life in London, with fine clothes, servants and a handsome tutor. Then one day her father disappears and she is left to fend for herself. Not equipped for the real world she ends up penniless, and sentenced to transportation to the colonies for a crime she didn't commit...
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Scatterheart is a 200y 2007 HistoricalFiction novel by Lilli Wilkinson. It's 1814 and Hannah Cheshire leads a privileged life in London, with fine clothes, servants and a handsome tutor. Then one day her father disappears and she is left to fend for herself. Not equipped for the real world she ends up penniless, and sentenced to transportation to the colonies for a crime she didn't commit...
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted with Hannah. At the start of the story she is an immaculately-dressed, well-groomed lady of Quality. Over the course of the voyage she becomes dirty, wears raggedy clothes, has her hair shaved off and loses a tooth thanks to being unable to properly clean them. Having said that, she's still implied to be attractive enough even after her hardships.
* BerserkButton: Threatening or mistreating women is a quick way to piss the usually gentle Thomas off.
* BerserkButton: Threatening or mistreating women is a quick way to piss the usually gentle Thomas off.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted with Hannah. At the start of the story she is an immaculately-dressed, well-groomed lady of Quality. Over the course of the voyage voyage, she becomes dirty, wears raggedy clothes, has her hair shaved off and loses a tooth thanks to being unable to properly clean them. Having said that, she's still implied to be attractive enough even after her hardships.
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** Threatening or mistreating women is a quick way to piss the usually gentle Thomas off.
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* {{VictimBlaming}}: Kathy blames [[spoiler: Long Meg's]] death on Hannah, and not, you know, the people who actually killed her.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted with Hannah. At the start of the story she is an immaculately-dressed, well-groomed lady of Quality. Over the course of the voyage she becomes dirty, wears raggedy clothes, has her hair shaved off and looses a tooth thanks to being unable to properly clean them. Having said that, she's still implied to be attractive enough even after her hardships.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted with Hannah. At the start of the story she is an immaculately-dressed, well-groomed lady of Quality. Over the course of the voyage she becomes dirty, wears raggedy clothes, has her hair shaved off and looses loses a tooth thanks to being unable to properly clean them. Having said that, she's still implied to be attractive enough even after her hardships.
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* DoubleStandard: Long Meg warns Hannah to stop flirting with James and tells her it'll come to no good. Hannah retorts that Long Meg can hardly talk when she sleeps with sailors every other night, but Long Meg simply answers that it's not the same - it's a business transaction.
* HeroicBSOD: When Hannah arrives in New South Wales and hears that Thomas is dead, she almost completely loses her will to live and consents to marry [[spoiler: James]] as his TrophyWife. It's thanks to the arrival of Molly who tells her Thomas is alive that snaps her out of it.
* ShellShockedVeteran: After killing an officer, [[spoiler: Thomas]] retreats to the mountains and it's strongly implied he's suffering from PTSD when he's reunited with Hannah.
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* VictimBlaming: Kathy blames [[spoiler: Long Meg's]] death on Hannah, and not, you know, the people who actually killed her.
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* VictimBlaming: {{VictimBlaming}}: Kathy blames [[spoiler: Long Meg's]] death on Hannah, and not, you know, the people who actually killed her.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: When Hannah is in New South Wales, a maid explains that she's a native to the town. When Hannah says she thought the natives were the Aborigines, the maid hurriedly clarifies she means she's "land born" (as in she was born there), but she's not one of the dirty savages who were there before the settlers.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Hannah, of all people, gets one:
--->'''Hannah:''' I'm sorry, [[spoiler: Meg.]] Sorry didn't do this sooner.
--->'''Hannah:''' I'm sorry, [[spoiler: Meg.]] Sorry didn't do this sooner.
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* VictimBlaming: Kathy blames [[spoiler: Long Meg's]] death on Hannah, and not, you know, the people who actually killed her.
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* FataFlaw: Long Meg never knows when to shut her mouth, even when she's pissing off authority figures who can and will hurt her.
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* FataFlaw: FatalFlaw: Long Meg never knows when to shut her mouth, even when she's pissing off authority figures who can and will hurt her.
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* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: James]] gradually grows more and more obsessed with status over the course of the book, while Hannah comes to see what a terrible person he is.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted with Hannah. At the start of the story she is an immaculately-dressed, well-groomed lady of Quality. Over the course of the voyage she becomes dirty, wears raggedy clothes, has her hair shaved off and looses a tooth thanks to being unable to properly clean them. Having said that, she's still implied to be attractive enough even after her hardships.
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** Hannah does not like Thomas's handkerchief being taken from her.
* BerserkButton: Threatening or mistreating women is a quick way to piss the usually gentle Thomas off.
** Hannah does not like Thomas's handkerchief being taken from her.
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* DeadlyDoctor: Dr. Ullathorne, who is nicknamed "Dr. Death" and Meg comments he has several diseases from sleeping with prostitutes.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: An unnamed woman who worked in the same factory as Thomas received a hundred-lashes on her bare back [[DisproportionateRetribution for swearing at an officer]], then thrown in a hole in the ground full of seawater. She then passes out from the excruciating pain and drowns.
* DeadlyDoctor: Dr. Ullathorne, who is nicknamed "Dr. Death" and Meg comments he has several diseases from sleeping with prostitutes. He's obsessed with trying to cure his own sickness and has a creepy fixation on Molly, believing if he can find something that works on her burns, he might be able to fix his own face, uncaring that Molly may die under such experiments.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the trauma Hannah goes through on the ship and when she arrives in New South Wales [[spoiler: she runs away with Molly to find Thomas, travelling east o' the sun, west o' the moon, and finally reunites with Thomas.]]
* FataFlaw: Long Meg never knows when to shut her mouth, even when she's pissing off authority figures who can and will hurt her.
* DeadlyDoctor: Dr. Ullathorne, who is nicknamed "Dr. Death" and Meg comments he has several diseases from sleeping with prostitutes. He's obsessed with trying to cure his own sickness and has a creepy fixation on Molly, believing if he can find something that works on her burns, he might be able to fix his own face, uncaring that Molly may die under such experiments.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the trauma Hannah goes through on the ship and when she arrives in New South Wales [[spoiler: she runs away with Molly to find Thomas, travelling east o' the sun, west o' the moon, and finally reunites with Thomas.]]
* FataFlaw: Long Meg never knows when to shut her mouth, even when she's pissing off authority figures who can and will hurt her.
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* HadToGoToPrisonToBeACrook: Hannah is totally innocent when she's arrested for stealing, but thanks to her father's reputation, Molly pickpocketing her and Hannah collapsing from the flu during her trial, she's deported anyway. On the voyage to New South Wales, [[spoiler: she becomes a murderer by pushing Dr. Ullathorne overboard after he kills Long Meg.]]
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* HadToGoToPrisonToBeACrook: HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: Hannah is totally innocent when she's arrested for stealing, but thanks to her father's reputation, Molly pickpocketing her and Hannah collapsing from the flu during her trial, she's deported anyway. On the voyage to New South Wales, [[spoiler: she becomes a murderer by pushing Dr. Ullathorne overboard after he kills Long Meg.]]
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Arthur may be a philanderer and a lacklustre parent, but he does have a point about Thomas obviously having feelings for his fourteen-year-old daughter despite being a lowly tutor is rather inappropriate, though his objections are based on their differing social status than Hannah's age.
* TheNicknamer: Long Meg - she calls Hannah "Yer Ladyship", Dr.Ullathorne is "Dr.Death", and she's the one who decides to call Molly by that name.
* TheNicknamer: Long Meg - she calls Hannah "Yer Ladyship", Dr.Ullathorne is "Dr.Death", and she's the one who decides to call Molly by that name.
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It's 1814 and Hannah Cheshire leads a privileged life in London, with fine clothes, servants and a handsome tutor. Then one day her father disappears and she is left to fend for herself. Not equipped for the real world she ends up penniless, and sentenced to transportation to the colonies for a crime she didn't commit...
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Scatterheart is a 200y HistoricalFiction novel by Lilli Wilkinson. It's 1814 and Hannah Cheshire leads a privileged life in London, with fine clothes, servants and a handsome tutor. Then one day her father disappears and she is left to fend for herself. Not equipped for the real world she ends up penniless, and sentenced to transportation to the colonies for a crime she didn't commit...
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* AnimalMotifs: Thomas has bears, represented in the Scatterheart tale as a white polar bear.
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** After an acrimonious start, Hannah becomes this to Molly.
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* HadToGoToPrisonToBecomeACrook: Hannah is totally innocent when she's arrested for stealing, but thanks to her father's reputation, Molly pickpocketing her and Hannah collapsing from the flu during her trial, she's deported anyway. On the voyage to New South Wales, [[spoiler: she becomes a murderer by pushing Dr. Ullathorne overboard after he kills Long Meg.]]
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* HadToGoToPrisonToBecomeACrook: HadToGoToPrisonToBeACrook: Hannah is totally innocent when she's arrested for stealing, but thanks to her father's reputation, Molly pickpocketing her and Hannah collapsing from the flu during her trial, she's deported anyway. On the voyage to New South Wales, [[spoiler: she becomes a murderer by pushing Dr. Ullathorne overboard after he kills Long Meg.]]
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It's 1814 and Hannah Cheshire leads a privileged life in London, with fine clothes, servants and a handsome tutor. Then one day her father disappears and she is left to fend for herself. Not equipped for the real world she ends up penniless, and sentenced to transportation to the colonies for a crime she didn't commit...
!!Tropes found in this work:
* BigSisterInstinct: Long Meg does initially steal Hannah's coat and hat, but after seeing Hannah is alone, scared and has no idea how to survive on her own, she takes pity on the girl and looks out for her on the ship. She also extends this to Molly, who is regarded as a "freak" by the sailors thanks to her burnt face.
* DeadlyDoctor: Dr. Ullathorne, who is nicknamed "Dr. Death" and Meg comments he has several diseases from sleeping with prostitutes.
* GoldDigger: Arthur Cheshire is strongly implied to have married Hannah's mother for her money, which he gambles away before the events of the book, abandoning his only daughter in the process.
* HadToGoToPrisonToBecomeACrook: Hannah is totally innocent when she's arrested for stealing, but thanks to her father's reputation, Molly pickpocketing her and Hannah collapsing from the flu during her trial, she's deported anyway. On the voyage to New South Wales, [[spoiler: she becomes a murderer by pushing Dr. Ullathorne overboard after he kills Long Meg.]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Hannah at the start tends to believe all people of "Quality" like her are good, and those who aren't are bad. Her CharacterDevelopment sees her grow out of this.
* InnocentBigot: Hannah has classist views and mentions that she finds poor people dirty and unrefined. This is largely due to parroting her father's beliefs and time spent as a convict gives her a much better standing of those who grew up with nothing.
* RuleOfThree: Thomas offers to run away with Hannah and care for her three times.
* TragicKeepsake: The handkerchief Thomas leaves behind becomes Hannah's prized possession.
* TraumaticHaircut: Hannah gets her hair shorn off as punishment for attacking James. By the time they arrived in New South Wales, it's grown to at least past her ears.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: James]] utterly flips out when Hannah repeatedly chooses Thomas over him, to the point of pulling a gun on her to ''make'' her come back with him.
!!Tropes found in this work:
* BigSisterInstinct: Long Meg does initially steal Hannah's coat and hat, but after seeing Hannah is alone, scared and has no idea how to survive on her own, she takes pity on the girl and looks out for her on the ship. She also extends this to Molly, who is regarded as a "freak" by the sailors thanks to her burnt face.
* DeadlyDoctor: Dr. Ullathorne, who is nicknamed "Dr. Death" and Meg comments he has several diseases from sleeping with prostitutes.
* GoldDigger: Arthur Cheshire is strongly implied to have married Hannah's mother for her money, which he gambles away before the events of the book, abandoning his only daughter in the process.
* HadToGoToPrisonToBecomeACrook: Hannah is totally innocent when she's arrested for stealing, but thanks to her father's reputation, Molly pickpocketing her and Hannah collapsing from the flu during her trial, she's deported anyway. On the voyage to New South Wales, [[spoiler: she becomes a murderer by pushing Dr. Ullathorne overboard after he kills Long Meg.]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Hannah at the start tends to believe all people of "Quality" like her are good, and those who aren't are bad. Her CharacterDevelopment sees her grow out of this.
* InnocentBigot: Hannah has classist views and mentions that she finds poor people dirty and unrefined. This is largely due to parroting her father's beliefs and time spent as a convict gives her a much better standing of those who grew up with nothing.
* RuleOfThree: Thomas offers to run away with Hannah and care for her three times.
* TragicKeepsake: The handkerchief Thomas leaves behind becomes Hannah's prized possession.
* TraumaticHaircut: Hannah gets her hair shorn off as punishment for attacking James. By the time they arrived in New South Wales, it's grown to at least past her ears.
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: James]] utterly flips out when Hannah repeatedly chooses Thomas over him, to the point of pulling a gun on her to ''make'' her come back with him.
