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Alternative title: Days of Crime and Years of Suffering
Issue Details: First known date: 1867... 1867 Owen Suffolk's Days of Crime and Years of Suffering
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First known date: 1867
Serialised by: The Australasian 1864 newspaper (2301 issues)
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Includes six poems.
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Published in serialised form in the Australasian in weekly instalments, 5 January to 19 October 1867.

Reprinted anonymously in the Tuapeka Times weekly supplement (Saturdays) 20 August 1887 to 17 March 1888 ('reprinted from The Australasian of 1867 by Special Permission.')

Edited extracts from Suffolk's autobiography were included in an article on him by J. F. Hogan: "The Prison Poet of Australia," Gentleman's Magazine (Oct 1897): 327-348.

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Works about this Work

Untitled Paul A. Pickering , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 82 2004; (p. 162-164)

— Review of Owen Suffolk's Days of Crime and Years of Suffering Owen Hargraves Suffolk , 1867 single work autobiography
Untitled Paul A. Pickering , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , August no. 26 2004;

— Review of Owen Suffolk's Days of Crime and Years of Suffering Owen Hargraves Suffolk , 1867 single work autobiography
Brutal Life on Floating Prisons Mary Ryllis Clark , 2001 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Age , 10 March 2001; (p. 11)
Rogue's progress Peter Pierce , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 27 February vol. 119 no. 6263 2001; (p. 78)

— Review of Owen Suffolk's Days of Crime and Years of Suffering Owen Hargraves Suffolk , 1867 single work autobiography
Owen Suffolk - Poet and Convict John Hogarth , 1954 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 2 August 1954; (p. 28-31, 34)
'A century ago, grim vessels lay at anchor in Hobson's Bay. They were the notorious hulks packed with criminals for whom the gaols could find no room, floating hells crammed with human misery. Yet on board one of them was a young man, who, under happier circumstances, might have been successful and even famous. This is the tragic story of Owen Suffolk, victim of circumstance and prey to his own weakness, who left posterity in his debt by writing an autobiography which showed what life meant to a convict. After many years of penal servitude he became, ironically enough, a contributor to the exclusive English 'Gentleman's Magazine''.(Publisher's blurb p. 29)
Untitled Paul A. Pickering , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , August no. 26 2004;

— Review of Owen Suffolk's Days of Crime and Years of Suffering Owen Hargraves Suffolk , 1867 single work autobiography
Untitled Paul A. Pickering , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 82 2004; (p. 162-164)

— Review of Owen Suffolk's Days of Crime and Years of Suffering Owen Hargraves Suffolk , 1867 single work autobiography
Rogue's progress Peter Pierce , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 27 February vol. 119 no. 6263 2001; (p. 78)

— Review of Owen Suffolk's Days of Crime and Years of Suffering Owen Hargraves Suffolk , 1867 single work autobiography
Owen Suffolk - Poet and Convict John Hogarth , 1954 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 2 August 1954; (p. 28-31, 34)
'A century ago, grim vessels lay at anchor in Hobson's Bay. They were the notorious hulks packed with criminals for whom the gaols could find no room, floating hells crammed with human misery. Yet on board one of them was a young man, who, under happier circumstances, might have been successful and even famous. This is the tragic story of Owen Suffolk, victim of circumstance and prey to his own weakness, who left posterity in his debt by writing an autobiography which showed what life meant to a convict. After many years of penal servitude he became, ironically enough, a contributor to the exclusive English 'Gentleman's Magazine''.(Publisher's blurb p. 29)
Brutal Life on Floating Prisons Mary Ryllis Clark , 2001 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Age , 10 March 2001; (p. 11)
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