澳大利亚文学史上对"首部小说"的定义取决于出版地的界定。在范迪门地（今塔斯马尼亚州）出版的《昆图斯·塞文顿》于1830-1831年间分三卷在霍巴特城出版，作者为被放逐的英国商人亨利·塞弗里1。塞弗里因伪造罪于1824年被判死刑后流放至范迪门地，1825年抵达霍巴特1。这部作品讲述了一个因伪造汇票被流放的男子的故事。塞弗里后来于1832年获得假释证，1838年获有条件赦免，1842年在亚瑟港去世1。
澳大利亚本土首部出版小说则属于爱尔兰裔女性安娜·玛丽亚·邦恩1。她在悉尼发表的《守护者》成书于1838年1，这一身份直到1960年代才被确认1。邦恩于1828年嫁给英国船长乔治·邦恩，后者于1834年意外去世，留下债务1。《守护者》由殖民地印刷出版商詹姆斯·斯皮尔伯里出版，邦恩出版时年仅30岁1。1991年，澳大利亚文学学者伊丽莎白·韦比对该作进行了重新出版并撰写序言1。
尽管这两部作品从文学角度未能经久流传，但都反映了早期殖民地文学的主题与澳大利亚文学的跨境特性1。
The question of Australia's first novel depends on how the distinction is defined. The first novel published within Australian territory was Quintus Servinton, issued in three volumes between 1830 and 1831 in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (present-day Tasmania).1 The author was Henry Savery, an exiled English merchant who had been sentenced to death for forgery in 1824 before being transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1825.1 The novel tells the story of a man transported to the penal colony for forging a bill of exchange.1 Savery later received a ticket of leave in 1832 and a conditional pardon in 1838, before his death at Port Arthur in 1842.1
The first novel authored by a woman in Australia was The Guardian, published in Sydney in 1838 by Anna Maria Bunn, an Irish-born woman who was only 30 years old at the time of publication.1 This authorship was not confirmed until the 1960s.1 Bunn had married English sea captain George Bunn in 1828, but after his unexpected death in 1834, she was left with significant debts.1 The novel was published by James Spilsbury, a colonial printer and publisher.1 More than a century and a half later, Australian literary scholar Elizabeth Webby reissued The Guardian with an introduction in 1991.1 While neither work achieved lasting literary prominence, both reflect the themes of early colonial literature and the cross-border character of Australian literary history.1
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