Transported to Botany BayLiterary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writersfrom canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to others who were themselves convictsused the figure of the felon exiled to Australia to construct class, race, and national identity as intertwined. Even as Englands