The Resource Flash Jim, Kel Richards
Flash Jim, Kel Richards
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The item Flash Jim, Kel Richards represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Flash Jim, Kel Richards represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict. These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates baffled and police confused. So comprehensible to us today, the flash language of criminals and convicts had marine officer Watkin Tench complaining about the need for an interpreter in the colonial court. Luckily, by 1811, that man was at hand. James Hardy Vaux - conman, pickpocket, absconder and thief, born into comfortable circumstances in England - was so drawn to a life of crime he was transported to Australia... not once, but three times! Vaux's talents, glibness and audacity were extraordinary, and perceiving an opportunity to ingratiate himself with authorities during his second sentence, he set about writing a dictionary of the criminal slang of the colony, which was recognised for its uniqueness and taken back to England to be published
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 312 pages
- Note
-
- "James Hardy Vaux, convict fraudster, transported 3 times, author of Australia's first dictionary" -- Cover
- Includes a vocabulary of the flash language (pages 257-312)
- Isbn
- 9781460759769
- Label
- Flash Jim
- Title
- Flash Jim
- Statement of responsibility
- Kel Richards
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict. These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates baffled and police confused. So comprehensible to us today, the flash language of criminals and convicts had marine officer Watkin Tench complaining about the need for an interpreter in the colonial court. Luckily, by 1811, that man was at hand. James Hardy Vaux - conman, pickpocket, absconder and thief, born into comfortable circumstances in England - was so drawn to a life of crime he was transported to Australia... not once, but three times! Vaux's talents, glibness and audacity were extraordinary, and perceiving an opportunity to ingratiate himself with authorities during his second sentence, he set about writing a dictionary of the criminal slang of the colony, which was recognised for its uniqueness and taken back to England to be published
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1946-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Richards, Kel
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Vaux, James Hardy
- Prisoners
- Convicts
- English language
- Swindlers and swindling
- Lexicographers
- Australia
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Flash Jim, Kel Richards
- Note
-
- "James Hardy Vaux, convict fraudster, transported 3 times, author of Australia's first dictionary" -- Cover
- Includes a vocabulary of the flash language (pages 257-312)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p2251681197
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 312 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781460759769
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- Flash Jim, Kel Richards
- Note
-
- "James Hardy Vaux, convict fraudster, transported 3 times, author of Australia's first dictionary" -- Cover
- Includes a vocabulary of the flash language (pages 257-312)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p2251681197
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 312 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781460759769
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Convicts -- New South Wales -- Biography
- English language -- Australia -- Slang
- Lexicographers -- Australia -- Biography
- Prisoners -- Australia -- History
- Swindlers and swindling -- Australia -- Biography
- Australia -- History -- 1788-1851
- Vaux, James Hardy, 1782-
- True crime stories
- Biographies
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