Abstract
This article examines a neglected convict narrative, published as ‘A Convict's Recollections of New South Wales’ (1825), but based on a manuscript known as ‘Mellish's Book of Botany Bay’. Owing to the particular circumstances of its production and distribution, an unrestrained ‘convict voice’ can be heard more clearly here than in most published convict narratives—but charting these circumstances remains critical to understanding the text. Important facts about the authorship, publication and reception of the Mellish narrative are established here for the first time.
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