Browse the full-length biographical essays published on St. John’s Online.
- Augustus Alt: The Baron
- Lydia Barber: A Real Life Tess of the d’Urbervilles
- Sarah Bell: Female Factory Matron
- Elizabeth Bennett: The Baker’s Wife
- William H. Bennett: An Eminent Baker
- Elizabeth Bourke: A Much-Lamented Lady
- Simon Burn: The Killing and Keening of Simon Burn
- Frances Hannah Clements: The Convict’s Child
- William Cosgrove: Duty and Destiny
- Thomas Daveney: The Tyrant of Toongabbie
- Henry Dodd: The Faithful Servant
- My Lord Dunn: A Tragicomedy
- Elizabeth Eccles: The Dairy Maid
- Thomas Eccles: The Swine Connoisseur
- Edward Elliott: The Husbandman
- Lady FitzRoy: The People’s Lady
- Thomas Freeman: Minding the Store
- A ‘Raw, Ignorant Boy’: John Harris, Esquire
- Deborah Herbert: A Prigger of Toggery
- John Herbert: From Felon to Farmer
- Hugh Hughes: The Wheelwright Made Right
- John Irving: The Best Surgeon Amongst Them
- Mary Kelly: The First Lady of Kellyville
- Prudence Kerr: Dear Prudence
- David Killpack: The Merry Mutineer
- Isaac Knight: The Trusty Sergeant
- Elizabeth Lawry: Little Babe
- Catherine Leigh: Faithful Coadjutor
- John Lewis: The ‘First’ Murder
- The Magees: The First Burial
- Samuel Marsden: A Contested Life
- John Martin: The Self-Freed Slave
- Mary Martin: Ungodly Visitation
- Thomas Martin: The Ripples of a Revolution
- James McManus: The Wrath of a Madman
- Jane McManus: The Maid Freed From The Gallows
- Josephine Mercelin: Convicts, Slaves and the Global Entanglements of New South Wales and Mauritius
- Sarah Moses: Tell the World I Died for Love
- Lives Left Behind: The Forsaken Families of First Fleeters William Gloster and James Ogden
- Christopher Palmer: Perils of a Purser
- John Palmer: The Purser, The P.O.W
- Richard Partridge: The Left-Handed Flogger
- Benjamin Ratty: Convict Constable
- Mary Rowe: At What Price Theft?
- Ann Smith: A Plunderer in the War Against Want
- Mary Anne Smith: A Murder is Announced
- Mary Smyth: A Murderer’s Banes in Gibbet Airns
- The Tarlingtons, Little Jemmy and Little George: No Pity for the Hunted
- The Taylors: I Am But Sleeping Here
- James Wright: The Highwayman