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The Worst Woman in Sydney

The Worst Woman in Sydney

The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh

by Leigh Straw
Publication Date: 01/07/2016

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Matriarch of the criminal underworld … or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney

The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney’s famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in TV’s Underbelly and every other account of Sydney’s criminal history from the 1920s to the 1960s. But she has never had a biography of her own.

Despite having more than 100 criminal convictions to her name, Kate Leigh is also remembered as a local hero, giving money to needy families and supporting her local community through the hard times of Depression and war. Here, novelist and historian Leigh Straw teases out the full story of how this wayward Reformatory girl from Dubbo made a fortune in eastern Sydney and defied the gender stereotyping of the time to become a leading underworld figure.

ISBN:
9781742234793
9781742234793
Category:
Biography: historical
Publication Date:
01-07-2016
Publisher:
NewSouth Publishing Frontlist
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
210x135mm
Leigh Straw

Leigh Straw is Arts Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Notre Dame in Perth. She's passionate about Australian history and enjoys sharing compelling Australian stories with up to 500 students every year. Her interest in Australian crime history developed from when she lived in the Darlinghurst and Surry Hills areas of Sydney. Over the last ten years she's written both fiction and popular non-fiction work. The Worst Woman in Sydney, about Kate Leigh, was published in 2016 by NewSouth. It was shortlisted for an ABIA. Lillian Armfield: Australia's first woman detective was published by Hachette in 2018.

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