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| 30 Oct. 2001 |
Handsome
Edition: 'The Jerilderie Letter' by Ned Kelly,
edited and introduced by Alex McDermott
Donna Lee Brien
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The
Jerilderie Letter by Ned Kelly, edited and introduced
by Alex McDermott
Text
Publishing, 2001.
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This
handsome edition of one of the important documents of
Australian history prints a transcript of Ned Kelly's
(in)famous Jerilderie Letter with an introductory
essay by historian Alex McDermott.
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Growing
up in Melbourne, we studied Ned Kelly every year in primary
school and it was with some surprise that I later learnt
of the existence of such figures as Ben Hall and Captain
Moonlight. Born in 1854 into an Irish family in Victoria,
hanged in Old Melbourne Goal on 11 November 1880, Kelly
is, undoubtedly, the most famed of these outlaws with
historical and imaginative studies of Kelly, his family,
his gang and his exploits sustaining his prominence in
public consciousness from the 1870s until today.
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This
iconic status has not, however, cemented a single coherent
reputation, with Kelly understood to be everything from
a brave, proto-republican crusader for the rights of the
oppressed, to a cowardly and brutal criminal. In A
History of Australia, Manning Clark noted that
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historians,
biographers, poets, playwrights and film script writers
have always had difficulty in sorting out the fact
from the legend. They have also found it difficult
not to take sides — some portraying Ned Kelly
as a mad-dog bushranger, and others seeing him with
the eye of pity as the victim of his harsh environment.
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