Bon Gaultier Bon Gaultier i(6948711 works by) (a.k.a. Theodore Martin; William Edmonstoune Aytoun)
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2 y separately published work icon The Book of Ballads Bon Gaultier (editor), London : William S. Orr and Co. , 1845 6948838 1845 anthology poetry
2 The Convict and the Australian Lady Bon Gaultier , 1844 poetry satire
— Appears in: Tait's Edinburgh Magazine , January vol. 11 no. 121 1844; (p. 51) The Book of Ballads 1845;

A satirical poem concerning a convict speaker pitching woo to a native Australian woman. Parodying the elevated style of courtly ballads, the poem draws on racist stereotypes of cannibalism, and satirises the lowly position of convict life.
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