Historian Janet McCalman has written about the “Lady Swindler”, Alexandrina Askew nee Grant.

According to McCalman:

“Alexandrina’s story illustrates in extreme personal form the pain of perceived inferiority and stigma felt by those transported to Van Diemen’s Land: the daily humiliations of being a nobody, without a family let alone a lineage. If her secrets and lies were spectacular, they were nonetheless reflective of the desperation of the socially thwarted and ignored.”

Among the Scottish women transported to Tasmania (Van Diemen’s Land), Alexandrina Grant was a success.

Says McCalman:
“Few of the 1636 Scottish women transported to Van Diemen’s Land achieved anything like [Alexandrina’s] ordinary triumph over poverty, stigma and marginalisation.”
https://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-how-lady-swindler-alexandrina-askew-triumphed-over-the-convict-stain-169023