About the Author

Cassandra Pybus is ARC Senior Fellow in History and Classics at the University of Tasmania. Her previous books include Gross Moral Turpitude and The Devil and James McAuley. Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is a lecturer in the School of History and Classics at the University of Tasmania. He has published many influential articles on convict history and with Lucy Frost he edited Chain Letters: Narrating Convict Lives (MUP 2001).