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Title Chain letters : narrating convict lives / edited by Lucy Frost and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Edition First edition
Published Carlton South, Vic. ; [Great Britain] : Melbourne University Press, 2001

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  994.020922 Fro/Cln  AVAILABLE
 W'PONDS  994.020922 Fro/Cln  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 248 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Contents 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.53::/u/anlfd:/bi
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 231-241
Subject Prisoners.
Prisoners -- Australia -- Biography.
Penal colonies -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 1788-1851. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009592
Genre/Form Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Author Frost, Lucy, 1941-
Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish.
LC no. 2002327704
ISBN 0522849776 :
Other Titles Narrating convict lives