| Main Title: |
Chain letters : narrating convict lives / edited by Lucy Frost and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart. |
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| Author: |
Frost, Lucy, 1941-
Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish
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| Publisher: |
[Great Britain] : Melbourne University Press, |
| Collation: |
xiv, 248 p. : ill., map, geneal. table, paperback ; 24 cm. |
| Summary: |
1. 'the d-- Yankee quill-driver' / Cassandra Pybus -- 2. In search of 'Jack Bushman' / Raymond Evans and William Thorpe -- 3. The search for the invisible man / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart -- 4. Seven tales for a man with seven sides / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart -- 5. Eliza Churchill tells... / Lucy Frost -- 6. A Spanish convict, her clergyman biographer, and the amanuensis of her bastard son / Susan Ballyn and Lucy Frost -- 7. 'your unfortunate and undutiful wife' / Eleanor Conlin Casella, Ellen Cornwall and Lucy Frost -- 8. 'State This Offence': high-density convict micro-narratives / Ian Duffield -- 9. 'These are but items in the sad ledger of despair' / Tina Picton Phillipps -- 10. Raising Lazurus / Tamsin O'Connor -- 11. 'Wherever I go I whill right to you' / Bruce Hindmarsh -- 12. Dr. Martin and the forty thieves / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Paul Donnelly and Timothy Millett -- 13. Alexander and the mother of invention / James Bradley and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart -- 14. At large with the run-a-ways / Lucy Frost and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart. |
| Subject: |
Penal colonies
Prison and prisoners
Convicts
Correspondence
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| Edition: |
1st ed. |
| ISBN: |
0522849776 |
| Notes: |
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 231-241.
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