Notorious Australian Women Notorious Australian Women

Notorious Australian Women

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The sensational lives and exploits of twenty audacious, brash and scandalous women, now in an all-new format.
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. From bushrangers, courtesans and cross-dressers, to writers, designers and a radical or two, what these splendid rebels have in common is a determination to take their destinies into their own hands.

GÊNERO
História
LANÇADO
2011
1 de abril
IDIOMA
EN
Inglês
PÁGINAS
400
EDITORA
ABC Books
VENDEDOR
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
TAMANHO
2,3
MB

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