Chain Letters Narrating Convict Lives

This book applies 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 interest arise from these stories, including the multicultural nature of Australian colonial society and, above all, the importance of love and hope.Frost, Lucy is the author of 'Chain Letters Narrating Convict Lives' with ISBN 9780522849776 and ISBN 0522849776.