Jack Maggs belongs to a long line of adaptations of Great Expectations, including David Allen's play Modest Expectations (1990), in which Dickens and his mistress Ellen Ternan visit Australia, and Michael Noonan's Magwitch (1982), which expands the convict's story without significantly revising it. As Australia has come increasingly interested in its colonial past, rather than seeking to forget its origins as a penal settlement, concern with figures like Magwitch/Maggs has increased. Robert Hughes has produced a compelling history of British settlement in Australia, The Fatal Shore (1988), which vividly depicts the privations endured by those condemned to transportation. Equally, Marcus Clark's For the Term.....
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