Voices from the Orphan Schools: the Children's Stories by Dianne Snowden | PB Subscription Theodore has an adventure at

Theodore has an adventure at the beach where he finds himself in trouble

annoying and shocking to his drinkers and diners

amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders

a young Van Diemen’s Land settler

Taken out of an orphanage and put to work as domestic servants in Tasmania’s early colonial days

Voices from the Orphan Schools: the Children's Stories by Dianne Snowden | PB Subscription Theodore has an adventure atNearly 6,000 children passed through the Orphan Schools in New Town (Hobart) from 1828 to 1879. Many were not orphans at all, but the children of convict mothers. This book reveals some of their stories. Dianne Snowden has shed new light on an important part of Tasmanias history, and brought to life stories which, though hitherto either unknown or long forgotten, are part of our story. ~ Saul Eslake.