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Rosalind Amelia Young
1853–1924
A voice from Pitcairn Island itself, she preserved the story of one of the world's most isolated communities for future generations. Her writing brings the aftermath of the Bounty mutiny close and human, drawing on family memory and island life.
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Mutiny of the Bounty and story of Pitcairn Island, 1790-1894
by Rosalind Amelia Young
About the author
Born on Pitcairn Island in 1853, Rosalind Amelia Young was a historian, teacher, and writer from the close-knit community descended in part from the HMS Bounty mutineers. Reliable sources describe her as the daughter of Simon Young and Mary Buffett Christian, and note that she was a great-granddaughter of John Adams, one of the mutineers.
She is best known for Mutiny of the Bounty and story of Pitcairn Island, 1790-1894, first published in 1894. The book is especially valuable because it tells the history of Pitcairn from an insider's point of view, preserving local memory as well as the larger historical events that shaped the island.
Young died in 1924. Although not widely known outside Pacific history and Bounty studies, her work remains an important window into Pitcairn's past and the lives of the people who made a home there.