The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island

This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia. Rottnest is also known as Wadjemup, or 'the place across the water where the spirits are', by Noongar, the Indigenous people of south-western Australia.

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Ann Curthoys is an honorary professor at the University of Sydney, and was previously Manning Clark Professor of History at ANU. She has written about many aspects of Australian history, and on questions of historical theory and historical writing. In the 1980s she co-edited two books on Australia's Cold War and another on Australian history since 1945. More recently Ann has been working on Paul Robeson's visit to Australia in 1960, exploring the connections between Cold War politics and the changing nature of race relations in Australian society. She is author of Freedom Ride: A freedom rider remembers (2002); with John Docker, Is History Fiction? (2005); and with Ann McGrath, How to Write History that People Want to Read (2009).

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Introduction

1. Willem de Vlamingh: Explorer, 1696-1697

2. Henry Vincent and Louisa Vincent: Prison Superintendent and Prison Matron, 1839-1845

3. Jane Elizabeth Green: Female Prisoner, 1840-1842

4. Henry Vincent and Louisa Vincent: The Later Years, 1846-1866

5. Lady Mary Anne Barker: The Governor's Wife, 1883-1884

6. Benjamin, Bob Thomas, Brandy, Yadthee, Harry, Jumbo, and Weeti Weeti: The Commission of Inquiry Attestants, 1881-1887

7. Karl Lehmann and Martin Trojan: Civilian Internees, 1914-1915

8. Herman August Kuring: Commandant, 1940-1941

9. Fay Sullivan: Nurse and Host to Holidaymakers, 1960-1984

Epilogue