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Through the examination of early committee papers held by the Archives of Tasmania, particularly the first-person evidence of Eliza Churchill, Frost contends that 'Female convict narratives do exist, if we know where to look, or by chance happen upon them.' Citing low literacy rates among convict women as a major factor in the dearth of such narratives, Frost also questions whether the autobiographical style was 'foreign to the convict women' and whether they may have resisted the genre.

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    y separately published work icon Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives Lucy Frost (editor), Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (editor), Carlton South : Melbourne University Press , 2001 Z974308 2001 anthology criticism correspondence

    'This is the first book to apply new academic understandings of the convict transportation system to explore the lives of individual convicts. In searching for the convict voice, each chapter is a detective story in miniature, either an exercise in discovering the identity behind a particular account or a piecing together of a convict life from the scattered fragments of a tale. Many issues of great contemporary interest arise from these stories, including the multicultural nature of Australian colonial society and, above all, the importance of love and hope.' (Publication summary)

         Carlton South : Melbourne University Press , 2001     pg. 79-90
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