Corruption and skullduggery : Edward Lord, Maria Riseley, and Hobart's tempetuous beginnings / Aliso...
Corruption and skullduggery : Edward Lord, Maria Riseley, and Hobart's tempetuous beginnings / Aliso...
Corruption and skullduggery : Edward Lord, Maria Riseley, and Hobart's tempetuous beginnings / Alison Alexander.
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Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
Dynnyrne, TAS : Pillinger Press, 2015.
Call Numbers
H 2019/2025
Record Identifier
MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xi, 350 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles (some colour), 1 genealogical table, maps (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 25 cm.
Content type
still image
cartographic image
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Timeline -- Introduction -- 1. Edward Lord goes to Australia -- 2. Founding Hobart Town -- 3. Obscure beginnings -- 4. Setting up shop -- 5. Marriage -- 6. Trouble at the Derwent -- 7. Dramatic times for the Lord family -- 8. Interlude: scandal in government house -- 9. Yet another inadequate govern...
Publication information
Publisher
Dynnyrne, TAS : Pillinger Press, 2015.
Place of Publication
Tasmania
Date Published
2015.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Australian
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Scope and Contents
Summary
" "It's 1805, and Maria Riseley - single, poor and pregnant - finds herself in the gloomy Female Factory, Parramatta. Her future looks bleak: separation from her baby then back to the round of housework and sex that is the lot of an assigned female convict. Then Edward Lord arrives. Young, aristocratic, imperious, he wants a woman. A lieutenant in...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Corruption and skullduggery : Edward Lord, Maria Riseley, and Hobart's tempetuous beginnings / Alison Alexander.
Portion of title
Edward Lord, Maria Riseley, and Hobart's tempestuous beginnings
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Features maps on endpapers, inside fold-out cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
H 2019/2025
Record Identifier
74VKVy7wApPy
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVy7wApPy
Other Identifiers
ISBN
9780646941158
DDC
994.6102
MMS ID
991024231915602626
