Wanting

Description:

Assuming the governorship of the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land, Sir John Franklin and his wife adopt a young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, and ten years later after Franklin and his crew disappear in the Arctic, Charles Dickens takes an interest in the story, which has a profound effect on his own life.

subjects: Fiction,  Indigenous women,  Aboriginal Australian Children,  Aboriginal Tasmanians,  Aboriginal Australians,  New York Times reviewed,  Dickens, charles, 1812-1870, fiction,  Aboriginal australians, fiction,  Fiction, biographical,  Fiction, historical, general,  Australia, fiction

People: Charles Dickens (1812-1870),  John Franklin (1786-1847),  Jane Franklin (1791-1875)

Places: Tasmania,  Australia