PublishedAllen & Unwin, May 2015 |
ISBN9781743315019 |
FormatSoftcover, 376 pages |
Dimensions23.4cm × 15.3cm |
'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.
