Bibliograph

Australia's last convicts, reprobates, rogues and recidivists, content, Lorraine Clarke and Cherie Strickland

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Australia's last convicts, reprobates, rogues and recidivists, content, Lorraine Clarke and Cherie Strickland

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Australia's last convicts

Responsibility statement

content, Lorraine Clarke and Cherie Strickland

Sub title

reprobates, rogues and recidivists

Summary

Western Australia was the last of the Australian colonies to receive transported convicts, the last cohort arriving in Fremantle on the Hougoumont on 9 January 1868. The photographs and profiles in this publication date from the late 1880s until around 1912, and show convicts who returned to the penal system after they had served their original sentences. Quite a few of the men are recidivists who spent much of their lives in the prison system for mainly petty crimes

Target audience

adult

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Creator