The suicide bride / Tanya Bretherton
- Bib ID:
- 8040452
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bretherton, Tanya, author
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2019
- ©2019
- 311 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780733640988 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Whenever society produces a depraved criminal, we wonder: is it nature or is it nurture? When the charlatan Alicks Sly murdered his wife, Ellie, and killed himself with a cut-throat razor in a house in Sydney's Newtown in early 1904, he set off a chain of events that could answer that question. He also left behind mysteries that might never be solved. Sociologist Dr Tanya Bretherton traces the brutal story of Ellie, one of many suicide brides in turn-of-the-century Sydney; of her husband, Alicks, and his family; and their three orphaned sons, adrift in the world.
- Notes:
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- "A mystery of tragedy and family secrets in Edwardian Sydney"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-311)
- Subject:
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- Sly, Ellie
- Sly, Alicks
- Sly family
- Murder -- Investigation -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Suicide -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Marital violence
- Murderers -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Murder victims -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Children of murder victims -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Orphans -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 1901-1945
- Australian
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- Publication date:
- 2019
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