![]() Sent to Van Diemen¿s Land, he changes his name to Rufus Dawes and steadies himself for life in some of the world¿s most notorious penal colonies. In the year 1827, a young British aristocrat is implicated in the murder and robbery of Lord Bellasis, his birth father. ![]() For its depictions of the brutality and inhumanity of Australiäs penal colonies, the novel has been recognized as a powerful realist novel and one of the first works of Tasmanian Gothic literature. Inspired by a journey taken by the author to the penal colony of Port Arthur, Tasmania, the novel was originally serialized in The Australian Journal between 18. ![]() For the Term of His Natural Life (1874) is a novel by Marcus Clarke. ![]()
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