Abandon All Hope (2011) by Bonney Djuric is a history of the Parramatta Girls Industrial School
The book explores the history of the Parramatta Girls Industrial School as the nation’s first (Catholic) orphanage in 1841 during the colonial period to its closure in 1983 by which time it was an institution run by NSW child welfare agency.
Abandon All Hope includes testimony from former inmates of Parramatta Girls Home and tells the story of feminist Bessie Guthrie’s attempt to expose the institution for the horrors visited on girls there.