ALEXANDRE JULIEN DUCHENE was not even four years into a fourteen year sentence in Van Diemen’s Land in 1840 when Major D’Arcy Wentworth, the Police Magistrate at Launceston, described him as ‘a man of most exemplary conduct’. Edward Hammond Hargraves, was less than two years into enjoying his claim to have started the Australian gold … Continue reading Duchene / Hargraves
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Eugene Rossiet Lennon: Professeur Extraordinaire
The Life and Loves of Eugene Rossiet Lennon, Professeur Extraordinaire. What they said about Eugene Rossiet Lennon: He displayed "manly and intrepid conduct" in saving children, "at the imminent peril and risk of his own life" - Hobart Town Daily Mercury, 1858. They wanted to sack me in order to obtain "the more brilliant services … Continue reading Eugene Rossiet Lennon: Professeur Extraordinaire
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The Journal of Madame Callegari
WHO WAS MADAME CALLEGARI? Was she one of these? The Transported Convict The Venetian Merchant's Wife The Heroine of the Californian Goldrushes The Adventurer of the Mexican Jungles The Celebrity of European Literary Circles The Plantation Owner of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec No. Madame Callegari was not just one of these. In fact, she was … Continue reading The Journal of Madame Callegari
