TY - GEN T1 - Vandemonians : The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria. A1 - McCalman, Janet LA - English PP - Carlton, Victoria PB - Melbourne University Publishing YR - 2021 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1336950191 AB - It was meant to be 'Victoria the Free', uncontaminated by the Convict Stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as they were cut free or able to bolt. More than half of all those transported to Van Diemen's Land as convicts would one day settle or spend time in Victoria. There they were demonised as Vandemonians. Some could never go straight; a few were the luckiest of gold diggers; a handful founded families with distinguished descendants. Most slipped into obscurity. Burdened by their pasts and their shame, their lives as free men and women, even within their own families, were forever shrouded in secrets and lies. Only now are we discovering their stories and Victoria's place in the nation's convict history. As Janet McCalman examines this transported population of men, women and children from the cradle to the grave, we can see them not just as prisoners, but as children, young people, workers, mothers, fathers and colonists. From the author of Struggletown and Journeyings, this rich study of the lives of unwilling colonisers is an original and confronting new history of our convict past - the repressed history of colonial Victoria. CN - DU220 SN - 9780522877540 SN - 0522877540 SN - 9780522877533 SN - 0522877532 KW - Ex-convicts : Australia : Victoria : History. KW - Victoria : History. KW - Victoria : Social life and customs. KW - Australia : Colonization : History : 18th century. KW - Australia : Colonization : History : 19th century. KW - Australian history. KW - Ex-détenus : Australie : Victoria : Histoire. KW - Victoria : Mœurs et coutumes. KW - Australie : Colonisation : Histoire : 18e siècle. KW - Australie : Colonisation : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand KW - Colonization KW - Ex-convicts KW - Manners and customs KW - Australia KW - Victoria KW - 1700-1899 KW - History ER -