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A letter, dated February 25th 1848, written from Van Diemen's Land by the convict Ellen Cornwall to her husband Frederick who was living in Birmingham, England.

Notes

  • A copy of this letter was discovered by Eleanor Conlin Casella at the Lawrence House Museum, Launceston, Cornwall.

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First known date: 1848
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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. 106-107
    Note: Text incorporated within 'Your Unfortunate and Undutiful Wife' by Eleanor Conlin Casella and Lucy Frost.
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'Your Unfortunate and Undutiful Wife' Eleanor Conlin Casella , Lucy Frost , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives 2001; (p. 105-115) Casella and Frost each make separate contributions to this article. Casella explains her disovery of Ellen Cornwall's letter at the Lawrence House Museum in Launceston, Cornwall. Frost and Casella both muse on the circumstances that could have surrounded the writing of the letter and each imagines possible scenarios for Cornwall's life in England and Van Diemen's Land.
'Your Unfortunate and Undutiful Wife' Eleanor Conlin Casella , Lucy Frost , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives 2001; (p. 105-115) Casella and Frost each make separate contributions to this article. Casella explains her disovery of Ellen Cornwall's letter at the Lawrence House Museum in Launceston, Cornwall. Frost and Casella both muse on the circumstances that could have surrounded the writing of the letter and each imagines possible scenarios for Cornwall's life in England and Van Diemen's Land.
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Last amended 7 Oct 2004 10:26:49
Subjects:
  • Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), Tasmania,
  • 1847-1848
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