‘To Solitude Confined’: the Tasmanian journal of William Smith O’Brien, 1849-1853, Richard Davis (ed.)(Crossing Press)
William Smith O’Brien’s Tasmanian Journal covers the period from his arrival in Van Diemen’s Land/Tasmania in October 1849 to March 1853, a little under a year before he was granted his first conditional pardon. The journal was written by O’Brien for his wife Lucy but it is evident from both its style and content that … Read more