Browse the full-length biographical essays published on St. John’s Online.

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• 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