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Issue Details: First known date: 1918... 1918 The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans (and the Mystery of Mr Daunt) : A Romance of Tasmania
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"An adventure novel, a complex melodrama centred on a convict who did the crime he has been sentenced for, but still seeks to make a new life for himself in Australia, and preferably one that suits his gentlemanly background. The book follows a carousel of escapes and captures, unrequited love, underground criminals, and occasionally philosophy." 

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  • Dedication:

    To

    M.

    in Memory of our ascent of Mount Arthur,

    Port Arthur,

    and discovery in the undergrowth of

    the iron arms of the Semaphore,

    whose wooden flag-poles, when lifted from

    the ground, fell back to earth in dusty fragments

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Works about this Work

Aboriginal Gothic Katrin Althans , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Darkness Subverted : Aboriginal Gothic in Black Australian Literature and Film 2010; (p. 11-29) In this essay, Althans ‘treats the Gothic as being a mode which continues to endow genres with a certain set of menacing stock elements and unstable characteristics of which the interrogation of boundaries, binaries, and identity are particularly useful in an Aboriginal Australian context’. (p.11-12)
Displaced Images in The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans Avis G. McDonald , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , March vol. 50 no. 1 1990; (p. 58-69)
Who Was Mr Hay? Nancy Cato , 1987 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Quarterly , 3-4 October 1987; (p. 8)
The Literary Associations of Port Arthur J. C. Horner , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers and Proceedings. Tasmanian Historical Research Association , vol. 32 no. 2 1985; (p. 56-61)
Untitled William Gosse Hay , 1968 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Emotional Life : Literature and Art 1968; (p. 60)
Fiction 1919 single work review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 30 August 1919; (p. 3)
— Review of The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans (and the Mystery of Mr Daunt) : A Romance of Tasmania William Gosse Hay , 1918 single work novel
A Novel of Suspense Katherine Mansfield , 1919 single work review
— Appears in: The Athenaeum , 18 July 1919;
— Review of The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans (and the Mystery of Mr Daunt) : A Romance of Tasmania William Gosse Hay , 1918 single work novel
Van Diemen's Land J. H. M. A. , 1919 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 11 September vol. 40 no. 2065 1919; (p. 2)
— Review of The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans (and the Mystery of Mr Daunt) : A Romance of Tasmania William Gosse Hay , 1918 single work novel
An Australian Classic Uther Barker , 1942 single work review
— Appears in: The B P Magazine , June 1942;
— Review of The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans (and the Mystery of Mr Daunt) : A Romance of Tasmania William Gosse Hay , 1918 single work novel
A Novel of Suspense Katherine Mansfield , 1946 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 7 no. 3 1946; (p. 163-164)
— Review of The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans (and the Mystery of Mr Daunt) : A Romance of Tasmania William Gosse Hay , 1918 single work novel
Aboriginal Gothic Katrin Althans , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Darkness Subverted : Aboriginal Gothic in Black Australian Literature and Film 2010; (p. 11-29) In this essay, Althans ‘treats the Gothic as being a mode which continues to endow genres with a certain set of menacing stock elements and unstable characteristics of which the interrogation of boundaries, binaries, and identity are particularly useful in an Aboriginal Australian context’. (p.11-12)
[Untitled] [Southerly, vol.13 no.4 1952] E. Morris Miller , 1952 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 13 no. 4 1952; (p. 237)
Who Was Mr Hay? Nancy Cato , 1987 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Quarterly , 3-4 October 1987; (p. 8)
Novels of 'The System' Clive Hamer , 1957 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 18 no. 4 1957; (p. 206-211)
Untitled William Gosse Hay , 1968 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Emotional Life : Literature and Art 1968; (p. 60)
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Last amended 19 Sep 2022 11:47:13
Subjects:
  • Port Arthur, Tasman Peninsula, Forestier Peninsula - Tasman Peninsula area, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
Settings:
  • 1830s
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