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MEMOIRS

OF

James Hardy Vaux (born 1782, date of death unknown citation needed) was an English-born convict transported to Australia on three separate occasions. He was the author of Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux including A Vocabulary of the Flash Language, first published in 1819, which is regarded as both the first full length autobiography and first. One of Australia's best known convicts James Hardy Vaux arrived at Newcastle penal settlement in May 1811. Not only was he thrice convicted and transported but James Hardy Vaux has the distinction of writing Australia's first Dictionary - The Vocabulary of the Flash Language which was compiled while he was serving his sentence at Newcastle. The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux. The story of a remarkable survival – a house that shouldn’t be there.

JAMES HARDY VAUX.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

James Hardy Vauxhall

PRINTED BY W. CLOWES, NORTHUMBERLAND-COURT, STRAND;

James Hardy Vaux

AND SOLD BY

ALL RESPECTABLE BOOKSELLERS.

1819.

Volume I
Volume II
Vocabulary of the Flash Language

James Hardy Vaux Dictionary

This work was published before January 1, 1926, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

James Hardy Vaux's Dictionary Of Criminal Slang