David Murray’s “Words for the Heat of Deeds” – A Story of Newcastle’s Convict Years
Newcastle has a rich literary history, being the site that created the first full length autobiography ever written in Australia, and the first dictionary ever compiled in Australia. These were the works of the infamous convict James Hardy Vaux and the 5th of July 2012 celebrated the bicentenary of this important milestone in Australia’s literary … More David Murray’s “Words for the Heat of Deeds” – A Story of Newcastle’s Convict Years