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Journal of Australian Colonial History

Vol.7 (2005)

Escape: Essays on Convict Australia

Editor: David Andrew Roberts


Grace Karskens 'This spirit of emigration': the nature and meanings of escape in early New South Wales 1
Ian Duffield 'Haul away the anchor girls': Charlotte Badger, tall stories and the pirates of the 'bad ship Venus' 35
Cassandra Pybus The many escapes of John Moseley 65
William M. Robbins Spatial Escape and the Hyde Park Barracks 81
David Andrew Roberts A 'change of place': illegal movement on the Bathurst frontier, 1822-1825 97
Erin Ihde 'Bold, Manly-Minded men' and 'Sly, Cunning Base convicts': The Double Standard of Escape 123
Stefan Petrow Men of Honour? The Escape of the Young Irelanders From Van Diemen's Land 139
Jeffrey Auerbach The Impossibility of Artistic Escape: Thomas Watling, John Glover, and the Australian Picturesque 161
Lynette Ross The Final Escape: an analysis of suicide at the penal settlement of Port Arthur 181