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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 A Spanish Convict, Her Clergyman Biographer, and the Amanuensis of Her Bastard Son
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Ballyn and Frost examine Cameron's account of Adelaide de la Theroza's life. They find little evidence to support Cameron's story, but conclude 'Whatever may or may not be true about Adelaide's origins, we are satisfied now that this convict woman who became an Australian pioneer mother and grandmother began her improbable journey in Spain.'

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    y separately published work icon Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives Lucy Frost (editor), Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (editor), Carlton South : Melbourne University Press , 2001 Z974308 2001 anthology criticism correspondence

    'This is the first book to apply new academic understandings of the convict transportation system to explore the lives of individual convicts. In searching for the convict voice, each chapter is a detective story in miniature, either an exercise in discovering the identity behind a particular account or a piecing together of a convict life from the scattered fragments of a tale. Many issues of great contemporary interest arise from these stories, including the multicultural nature of Australian colonial society and, above all, the importance of love and hope.' (Publication summary)

         Carlton South : Melbourne University Press , 2001     pg. 91-104
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