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Image of Corruption and Skullduggery
Author Alison Alexander
Binding Paperback
Edition Standard
Condition NEW
Item Status Available and copy In Stock (but currently Out Of Print)
Publisher Pillinger Press
Release Date 01 Jan 2015
Price
$75.00
Weight 1.260kg
ISBN 9780646941158

The fascinating story of the officer and the convict, Edward Lord and Maria Riseley, who made a fortune in early Hobart by their business and networking skills – only to throw it away in the 1820s by extravagance and financial incompetence (Edward) and sexual infidelity (Maria).

This is also the real story of early Hobart, not whitewashed as it usually is to show our glorious beginnings or because the gullible historian actually believes the official sources. Glossing over embarrassing scandals was the least of it. No one in Van Diemen’s Land wanted to be there: they were all either sent there (convicts, guards, officials) or, as convicts claimed and was all too often the case, they fled from Britain only one step ahead of the law (free settlers).