Part I. In the Nineteenth Century: Discovering the Lost Child: 1. The lost child introduced: Henry Kingsley's The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn

'Come let us sing of this fair child heroic': Jane Duff and her brothers

Alfred Boulter A Monument at Daylesford

Marcus Clarke's Lost Children

The Case of Clara Crosbie

Frederick McCubbin's Images of the Lost Child

Fairytales of the 1890s

The Bush Balladists'

Turn Mrs Praed and the Punishment of Mrs Tregaskiss

Henry Lawson and 'The Babies in the Bush'

Joseph Furphy's 'Perfect Young-Australian'

Part II. In the Twentieth Century: The Child Abandoned: In the theatre

In fiction

Book into film

True stories.