Sarah Elizabeth Leake, Miss Leake, was mistress at Rosedale, her father's property, near Campbell Town in Tasmania's Midlands.
The Cruise of the Freak and the missionary voyages in Bass Strait of Canon Marcus Brownrigg 1872-1885, telling of the lives of Tasmanian Aboriginal people on the Bass Strait islands.
The wartime memoir of Major Wilfrid Selwyn "Billy" Kent Hughes MC — published in 1918 by Melville & Mullen, Melbourne, on his return from the Sinai and Palestine campaigns with the Australian Light Horse. Kent Hughes enlisted as a private in August 1914 at the age of 19, served at Gallipoli where he was wounded, then through the Sinai and Palestine campaign with the 3rd Light Horse Brigade under his uncle Brigadier General Frederic Godfrey Hughes.
Patsy Adam Smith's account of the mutton-birding culture of the Furneaux Islands — the group of Bass Strait islands of which Flinders Island is the largest — and the Aboriginal and Islander families whose lives have been shaped by the annual harvest of short-tailed shearwaters (muttonbirds) for generations.

