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Author Lee, Janet (Novelist), author.

Title The Killing of Louisa / Janet Lee
Published St Lucia, Queensland, Australia : University of Queensland Press, 2018

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Contents Cover; Author biography; Title page; Imprint page; Dedication; Legislative Assembly -- 19 December 1888; Prologue; Prisoner's Letters -- Passed by Permission; 1.; Brevities; 2.; Latest Special Telegrams; 3.; Intercolonial; 4.; News of the Day; Central Criminal Court; 5.; The Botany Murder Case -- Extracts from the Murderess's Letters; The Botany Poisoning Cases; 6.; 7.; 8.; 9.; 10.; 11.; 12.; The Botany Murder Case -- Life and History of Louisa Collins; 13.; 14.; 15.; 16.; The Botany Murder Case -- Extracts from the Murderess's Letters 2; 17.; 18.; 19
The Botany Murder Case -- Marriage Certificate20.; 21.; Case of Louisa Collins; 22.; 23.; 24.; 25.; 26.; 27.; 28.; 29.; 30.; 31.; The Botany Murderess; 32.; 33.; 34.; 35.; 36.; 37.; 38.; Legislative Assembly; 39.; 40.; 41.; In the House; 42.; 43.; 44.; Law Report; 45.; 46.; 47.; 48.; 49.; 50.; 51.; 52.; 53.; 54.; 55.; 56.; 57.; 58.; Epilogue; Behind the Bars; Author's Note; Acknowledgements; Notes
Summary "Finally, convicted murderess Louisa Collins can tell her own story. But will she confess?To lose one husband may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like murder. Louisa Collins was hung in New South Wales in 1889. She was tried four times for the alleged murders of her two husbands. In three of those trials the juries could not agree that she was guilty. At her fourth trial the testimony of Louisa's young daughter, May, contributed to Louisa's conviction. Intimately reimagined from Louisa's perspective, with a story that just might fit the historical facts, this clever and compelling novel visits Louisa in her prison cell as she reflects on her life and the death and loss that have dictated her fate. Will she confess? Or was an innocent woman brutally hanged?"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 14, 2018)
Emerging Queensland Writer - Manuscript Awardf (won), 2017
Queensland Literary Awards (won), 2017
Subject Trials (Murder) -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
Trials (Murder)
New South Wales
Genre/Form Fiction
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780702261602
0702261602
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