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1 y separately published work icon Old Ham Fresh Drest 1796 Michael Massey Robinson , Adelaide : Sullivan's Cove , 1989 Z1402784 1989 single work non-fiction
1 y separately published work icon Recollections of Melbourne and Port Phillip Bay in the Early Forties George Gordon McCrae , Adelaide : Sullivan's Cove , 1987 Z1334569 1987 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon Mrs Fenton's Tasmanian Journal, 1829-1830 Elizabeth Fenton , Adelaide : Sullivan's Cove , 1986 Z1347033 1986 single work diary
2 1 y separately published work icon A Shred of Autobiography, Containing Various Anecdotes, Personal and Historical, Connected with these Colonies Jorgen Jorgensen , Adelaide : Sullivan's Cove , 1981 Z1919839 1835 single work autobiography travel
6 1 y separately published work icon James Porter's Narrative A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventure of Certain of the Ten Convicts, Who Piratically Seized the Brig Frederick at Macquarie Harbour, in Van Diemen's Land, as Related by One of the Said Convicts Whilst Lying Under Sentence of Death for This Offence at Hobart Town James Porter , 1837 (Manuscript version)x401382 Z1146792 1837 single work autobiography
— Appears in: The Hobart Town Almanack and Van Diemen's Land Annual 1838;
1 1 y separately published work icon Memories of the Past A Lady in Australia , Melbourne : W. H. Williams , 1873 Z61471 1873 single work autobiography
1 4 y separately published work icon My Home in Tasmania, During a Residence of Nine Years Louisa Anne Meredith , London : John Murray , 1852 Z255854 1852 single work autobiography prose travel
1 y separately published work icon The Horrors of Convict Life : Two Lectures. John Frost , London : Holyoake , 1856 Z1606068 1856 single work biography

"John Frost was a Chartist who had led an armed attack on Newport in 1839, for which he received a sentence of death, later commuted to transportation for life. He and his two Chartist companions, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones, arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1840. In his narrative, printed from notes of speeches made after his return to England, Frost describes some of his experiences as a convict during the first three-and-a-half years of his sentence. He was made a police clerk in the office of Commandant Booth at Port Arthur, but after 12 months was removed from his office and placed in a labour gang for between two and three years, due, he claims, to the contents of a letter he had written his wife. While he was police clerk at Port Arthur, Frost read through thousands of cases of breach of discipline by convicts, and bitterly denounces the cruelty and injustice with which the convicts were treated in Van Diemen's Land" (Walsh and Hooton 64).

Source

Walsh, Kay and Joy Hooton. Australian Autobiographical Narratives : An Annotated Bibliography. Canberra : Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, University College, ADFA and National Library of Australia, 1993.

2 y separately published work icon The Life of John Broxup: Late Convict of Van Diemen's Land John Broxup , Leeds : 1850 6715175 1850 single work autobiography

"Broxup gives a brief account of his life in York, and as a soldier and sailor up to 1829 when he was convicted of theft and sentenced to transportation to Van Diemen's Land. He describes his life as a convict, first on hulks at Sheerness and later in chain gangs near Launceston and at Bridgewater. He endured severe floggings and assignment to chain gangs for what he describes as trifling misdemeanors. He made one attempt to abscond but was captured and served out his sentence. He worked for four years in Hobart before returning to York around 1840. Broxup brings to the attention of his readers several instances of extreme cruelty and injustice towards convicts, including cases where convicts died as a result of floggings, and recounts a story of the wreck of the George the Third, which sank off the coast of Van Diemen's Land in 1835 with many convicts trapped in the holds, which guards refused to open.

This pamphlet is characteristic of a genre of convict narratives in which the writer, having returned destitute to his home, gives an outline of his convict experiences, then urges readers to take warning from his story and avoid the drunkenness, gambling and low company which led to his downfall. Some passages in Broxup's narratives repeat word for word passages in Samuel Cockney's Life (q.v.), and may not relate to his own experiences. Broxup was interviewed by James Backhouse (q.v.) while in Van Diemen's Land and appears to have been influenced by him" (Walsh and Hooton 29).

Source

Walsh, Kay and Joy Hooton. Australian Autobiographical Narratives : An Annotated Bibliography. Canberra : Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, University College, ADFA and National Library of Australia, 1993.

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