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Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 The Penguin Anthology of Australian Women's Writing
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,:Penguin , 1988 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Literary Tradition and the Women Writers of Australia, Dale Spender , single work criticism (p. xiii-xxxiii)
Letters, Margaret Catchpole , correspondence

Between 1801 and 1811, Margaret Catchpole wrote a series of letters to her connections in England, including her former employer, Elizabeth Cobbold, in Ipswich. The letters constitute one of the earliest surviving, and most extensive, collections of correspondence written by an Australian convict.

 (p. 1-9)
Note: Reproduces five of the eleven known extant letters of Margaret Catchpole. Spelling and grammar are corrected and standardised.
[Letter to Mrs Cobbold], Margaret Catchpole , single work correspondence (p. 2)
Note: "In the interest of clarity, spelling and punctuation have been modified" (1).
[Letter to Mrs Cobbold, Including a Letter to Dr George Stebbin], Margaret Catchpole , single work correspondence

Catchpole first letter from New South Wales, written to her former employer and patron Elizabeth Cobbold a month after landing, describes the country, the productions of the colony, and the varying forms of convict life and penal discipline. She longed to send her patron one of the local parrots "for they are very Buttefull But i see so maney dy on Board it mak me so verry unwilling to send you one But if i should Contiuneu Long in this Countrey i suarteneley will send you sumethg out of this wicked Countrey for i must say this is the wickedes places i ever was in all my Life." The attached letter to Dr [George] Stebbin is a series of short correspondences headed "Dear Sir," or "Sir," on different topics. The first details a gruesome encounter where "the Blackes the natives of this places kild and wounded 8 men and women and children." The second details Catchpole's journey, her landing at Sydney, the Aborigines, and other Suffolk women convicts. The third mainly details commodity prices in the colony, and the fourth a wish that Dr Stebbin might address her a letter at an address in the Brickfields, Sydney.

 (p. 2-4)
Note: "In the interest of clarity, spelling and punctuation have been modified" (1). Spender's edited version also omits most of the letter[s] to Dr Stebbin.
[Letter to Uncle and Aunt Howes], Margaret Catchpole , single work correspondence (p. 4-5)
Letters/Journal, Elizabeth Macarthur , selected work correspondence diary (p. 11-33)
Journal, Georgiana Huntly McCrae , extract diary (p. 35-51)
My Home in Tasmania, During a Residence of Nine Years, Louisa Anne Meredith , extract autobiography (p. 53-85)
Afloat or Ashore, Catherine Helen Spence , single work short story (p. 87-112)
A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-1853 : Written on the Spot, Ellen Clacy , extract autobiography (p. 113-142)
Kirsty Oglevie, Waif Wander , single work short story
A romance set on a Murrumbidgee station between the strong-willed daughter of the house and a neighbouring farmer, and the near marriage of the mother. (PB)
 (p. 143-154)
A Girl's Ideal, Ada Cambridge , extract novel (p. 155-284)
Editorials from The Dawn, Louisa Lawson , selected work prose (p. 285-289)
An Old Time Episode in Tasmania, Tasma , single work short story historical fiction (p. 291-305)
My Australian Girlhood, Rosa Praed , extract autobiography (p. 309-373)
Dinewan the Emu, and Goomblegubbon the Bustard Dinewan the Emu and Goomble-Gubbon the Turkey, K. Langloh Parker , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 379-382)
How the Sun was Made, K. Langloh Parker , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 379-382)
The Southern Cross, K. Langloh Parker , single work prose Indigenous story (p. 379-382)
Squeaker's Mate, Barbara Baynton , single work short story (p. 387-401)
Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper, Mary Gaunt , single work short story (p. 403-430)
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