Some Convict Sources in Keneally and Fitzgerald

Abstract

Ryan discusses the convict Maurice Fitzgerald, whose biography inspired both Keneally's novel Passenger and Fitzgerald's poem 'The Wind at Your Door'.

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Published 1 May 1980 in Volume 9 No. 3. Subjects: Convict transportation, Convicts, Writer's research & sources, Tom Keneally, R.D. Fitzgerald.

Cite as: Ryan, J. S.. ‘Some Convict Sources in Keneally and Fitzgerald.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, 1980, doi: 10.20314/als.757c7918b9.