Black Widow: The True Story of Australia's First Female Serial Killer
Author(s): Carol Baxter
Never before in the hundred year history of Australia has a female prisoner become so notorious as Louisa Collins.' - Evening News Two inquests, four trials, three hung juries and the executioner...but was Louisa Collins really a husband killer? Was she the callous adulteress, drunkard and liar known as the Botany Bay Murderess and the Lucrezia Borgia of Botany Bay? Or was this mother of seven a spirited and defiant woman who was punished for breaching society's expectations of womanly behaviour? Compelling, freshly told and richly detailed, Black Widow uncovers the truth of a story that challenged the morality, the politics and the notion of law in an Australia on the edge of nationhood.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Allen & Unwin
- : Allen & Unwin
- : 01 May 2015
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : 01 May 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : Carol Baxter
- : Paperback
- : 615
- : English
- : 376