HIDDEN HISTORIES
Jan 23, 2020
2 minutes
“It was more shocking than anything in the pages of the gothic novels”
There is a sub-genre of English literature known as Tasmanian gothic. It consists of sensationalist novels, such as Marcus Clarke’s , set in the penal colonies of the Australian island that until 1856 was known as Van Diemen’s Land. It was to that island that around 40 per cent of all the
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