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y separately published work icon The Convict Ship ; A Narrative of the Results of Scriptural Instruction and Moral Discipline as These Appeared on Board the Earl Grey, during the Voyage to Tasmania : With Brief Notices of Individual Prisoners single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1844... 1844 The Convict Ship ; A Narrative of the Results of Scriptural Instruction and Moral Discipline as These Appeared on Board the Earl Grey, during the Voyage to Tasmania : With Brief Notices of Individual Prisoners
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"In a personal narrative which supplement the author's earlier work, England's Exiles (1842), on the subject of the treatment and instruction of convicts during transportation, Browning describes his voyage as surgeon and superintendent of convicts on the transport Earl Grey from Plymouth to Hobart Town in 1842-3. Browning's main interest was the instruction of the convicts in the Scriptures and their conversion to Christianity. He reports many instances of religious awakening, some prompted by a spectacular electrical storm at sea, and includes transcripts of confessions, expressions of repentance and professions of faith, which he claims were made to him by convicts" (Walsh and Hooton 28).

Source

Walsh, Kay and Joy Hooton. Australian Autobiographical Narratives : An Annotated Bibliography. Canberra : Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, University College, ADFA and National Library of Australia, 1993.

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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Smith, Elder ,       1844 .
      Extent: 324p.
      Note/s:
      • Ferguson 3796
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Robert Craighead ,       1855 .
      Extent: 263p.
      Edition info: 4th ed.
      Note/s:
      • With a preface by the Rev. James H. Fowles
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Hume Nisbet ,       1856 .
      Extent: 276p.
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  • Hobart Town (1803-1880), Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), Tasmania,
  • 1842-1843
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