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'Your Unfortunate and Undutiful Wife' single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 'Your Unfortunate and Undutiful Wife'
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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.

Notes

  • This article includes the text of the letter written by Cornwall to her husband Frederick. The letter is indexed separately.

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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. 105-115
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  • Untitled Ellen Cornwall , 1848 single work correspondence
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