Convicts

A poem by convict James Gordon, published in the 'Pestonjee Bomanjee Journal'.

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…

In a recent study of convict jargon in this journal emphasis is placed on the use of convict terms outside convict circles, particularly in the…

Andrews provides a bibliography and discussion of Price Warung's research and writing about the Australian convict system by Price Warung (William Astley). The essay focuses…

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…

We are beginning to reach a stage when the books which form the basis of our social history are emerging from obscurity and are becoming…

Copy of a poem by John Grant (see essay by Ian Syson, 'John Grant: Australia's First "Really" Radical Poet', in this issue).

Discussion of Australian folk ballads and their origin frequently leads to speculation about a person vaguely known as Frank the Poet or Francis MacNamara, thought…

Examines the representation of criminality and convicts in the work of George Barrington and argues that his stunningly successful Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) is…

Writer Carmel Bird shares her recollections of growing up in Tasmania.

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

The colonisation of Aboriginal land is a moment of at least two clear examples of British imperial barbarity. In their study Dark Side of the…

Had he been on their case, one can imagine F.R. Leavis intoning 'We will not reckon Bryce Courtenay a writer of historical fiction to appeal…