Includes texts of letters from Myra Sykes to her husband William who was transported for life
Summary
Inspired by letters written by Myra Sykes to her husband William, transported for life as a result of a night's poaching during which a gamekeeper was killed. In the 1850s the Swan River settlers, desperately short of labour, were petitioning the British Government to send convicts to the colony. The convicts who came were set to work on making roads and bridges, and on raising public buildings. William Sykes is treated as the prototype of the many convicts who came to Western Australia
Analysis
Convicts - Australia - Western Australia
Notes
First published in 1959 by Oxford University Press, Melbourne