The Plot for a Life : Or, The Pilot and the Contrabandist. A Story of Ship and Shore. single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1875... 1875 The Plot for a Life : Or, The Pilot and the Contrabandist. A Story of Ship and Shore.
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Paul Moulin, lighthouse-keeper on the island of St Michel off the coast of France fostered a child, Ernest, rescued from a storm 4 years before the tale commences. On that night another ship is wrecked leaving 4-year-old Estelle the only survivor. Paul takes him into his home too. The return of Ernest's putative father, a contrabandist, wrests Ernest temporarily from the island but he returns a few hours later - along with his 'father's' threat to return and claim him again. Eight years pass but he does return and forces Ernest to join his smuggling ship. (PB)

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First known date: 1875
Serialised by: The Australian Journal 1865 periodical (900 issues)
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Serialised in the Australian Journal 10.116 (Jan 1875) 255-261; 10.117 (Feb 1875) 318-324; 10.118 (March 1875) 373-380.
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From Hagiography to Personal Pain : Stories of Australian Foster Care from the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First Dee Mitchell , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Adoption and Culture , vol. 5 no. 2017; (p. 89-109)

'Stories—fictional, biographical, and autobiographical—are one way in which we can imagine what it has been like to experience foster care in Australia. In this paper I look at the trends in stories told about foster care from the nineteenth century, across the twentieth, and into the early twenty-first century. While exploring these trends, I make some observations about the shift from fictional accounts where foster parents and foster children were heroic characters to often searing tales of hurt and trauma inflicted on children in foster care by violent women and men.'

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From Hagiography to Personal Pain : Stories of Australian Foster Care from the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First Dee Mitchell , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Adoption and Culture , vol. 5 no. 2017; (p. 89-109)

'Stories—fictional, biographical, and autobiographical—are one way in which we can imagine what it has been like to experience foster care in Australia. In this paper I look at the trends in stories told about foster care from the nineteenth century, across the twentieth, and into the early twenty-first century. While exploring these trends, I make some observations about the shift from fictional accounts where foster parents and foster children were heroic characters to often searing tales of hurt and trauma inflicted on children in foster care by violent women and men.'

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