James Rosenberg Tucker (1808–1888) was an Australian convict and author from Bristol, England. Under the pseudonym Giacomo di Rosenberg, Tucker wrote his

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''Ralph Rashleigh; or, The Life of an Exile'' in 1844. It was published in a heavily edited form in 1929, and his original manuscript was published in 1952. Tucker was convicted at the

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Spring Assizes on 3 March 1826 of blackmailing his cousin, James Stanyford Tucker. He was tried before Sir William Alexander, C.B., "On an indictment for sending a threatening letter...accus ngof an infamous crime" and sentenced to transportation for life. He was 18 years old at the time. The next year he was put aboard the convict ship ''Midas'', which sailed for Sydney Cove. He arrived in Sydney in 1827 and worked at

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. Still a convict, he was sent to

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in 1844. He was in

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from 1849 to 1853.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'', Oxford, Melbourne, 1994, p. 760.

Works

*''Ralph Rashleigh'' *'' Jemmy Green in Australia''

References

External links

Peter Scott, "Tucker, James (1808–1888)"
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