Convict literature

The exotically named convict ship the 'Pestonjee Bomanjee' sailed from Plymouth on the 18 April 1852, with 291 transportees, 30 pensioners as guards 24 women…

As the paving stones go down, it becomes necessary to walk more warily. The time is gone when we could read up Henry Savery in…

However silently or intermittently James Tucker may have hoped for redemption he had given himself to death in 1845 when he placed the final touches…

If Ralph Rashleigh was written from the inside, by a convict who never won his freedom in 40 years, it was inevitably written with the…

What makes these two books on convictism complement one another so well is their shared concern with the power of words. This may be an…

Convicts have loomed large in the Australian consciousness, and Australians in search of national identity or self-understanding have had to come to terms, in one…

Examines the social significance attributed to Price Warung by Vance and Nettie Palmer, Russel Ward and Ian Turner and others.

This article surveys the history of Irish-Australian autobiography and memoir as a form of writing particularly well adapted to exploring the tensions and compromises of…