Notorious Australian Women by Kay Saunders

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Wear to book corners and edges.

Notorious Australian Women celebrates the lives of some of Australia's most fearless, brash and scandalous women.

There's Tilly Devine, who went from streetwalker in London to wealthy Sydney madam and standover merchant; Mary Bryant, the highway robber and First Fleeter who escaped by rowing from Port Jackson to Timor with her two children; Lola Montez, the Irish-born grande horizontale, who destroyed King Ludwig I of Bavaria; Ellen Tremaye and Marion Edwards, women who challenged the gender order and became men; and Helena Rubinstein, who rewrote her humble Polish background and became one of the most successful and astute businesswomen in the world. (back cover)