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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Convict Transportation to Australia

National Identity and Social Class

The Transported Convict as a Guarantor of Ideal Englishness

Imagining an Australian Identity

The Literary Figure of the Convict in Australia

ONE: Dickens and the Transported Convict

Great Expectations

Household Words

TWO: Englishness and the Working Class in Transportation Broadsides

The Cultural Work of the Broadsides

Broadside Ballads and Their Tunes

The Visual Impact of the Broadsides

Full-Sheet Broadsides and Levels of Literacy

The (Mistaken) Land of Exile

THREE: Writing Convicts and Hybrid Genres

The Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux

Convict-Authored Novels

Quintus Servinton

Ralph Rashleigh

FOUR: The Transported Convict Novel

The English Convict Novel as a Genre

The Working-Class Woman Convict: The History of Margaret Catchpole

G. P. R. James’s The Convict: A Tale

Charles Reade’s It Is Never Too Late to Mend

FIVE: Convict Servants and Genteel Mistresses in Women’s Convict Fiction

George Eliot’s Adam Bede

Mary Vidal and “The Convict Laundress”

Caroline Leakey’s The Broad Arrow

Eliza Winstanley’s For Her Natural Life

SIX: After Transportation: Three Approaches

Marcus Clarke’s His Natural Life

Rosa Praed’s Policy and Passion: A Novel of Australian Life

Anthony Trollope’s Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Transported to Botany Bay

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