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