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1 [Review Essay] The Convict's Daughter Louise Blake , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Lilith , no. 23 2017; (p. 118-119)

'The Convict’s Daughter opens in Pitt Street, Sydney in 1848 with fifteen year-old Mary Ann Gill standing precariously on a window ledge of the hotel run by her parents, former convicts Martin and Margaret Gill, contemplating whether or not to elope with gentlemen settler James Butler Kinchela, son of the former Attorney General of New South Wales. As this biography reveals the events that follow Mary Ann’s step from the window ledge and to her planned rendezvous with Kinchela engulf Mary Ann and her family in a public scandal, described in newspaper reports as the ‘Parramatta Romance’, which played out alongside the 1848 election campaign in New South Wales.'  (Introduction)
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