![]() ![]() “Let me give you a very rough idea of the territory it is not an easy bit of land to learn so 1st I will give you a simple picture you must imagine a great wedge of pie with a high ridge around its outer crust they call that ridge the Great Dividing Range. ![]() “She had a mother and father and brothers and sisters but in the end she were a poor widow and she had 7 children and all of them was alarmed and unsettled by their lives.” of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false. He died by hanging in Melbourne on 11th November 1880 at the age of 25. It begins with accounts of his early life in country Victoria, and ends with his description of the siege at Glenrowan where he was captured by police, put on trial, and sentenced to death. The author has imagined that the Australian bushranger Ned Kelly has given an account of his life for the daughter he hasn’t met. Carey said: “ My thanks to all my publishers who did not try to add a single comma.“ Peter Carey wrote his imagined version just as Ned Kelly wrote the Jerilderie Letter – sprawling and rambling. ![]()
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