The convict's daughter : the scandal that shocked a colony / Kiera Lindsey.
Publication details: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2016.Description: xiv, 322 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), one colour map, facsimiles ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760112585
- 1760112585
- Gill, M. L
- Gill, M. L
- Gill, Martin
- Kinchela, James Butler
- Gill, Mary Ann
- Biography & True Stories
- Women -- New South Wales -- 19th century -- Biography
- Scandals -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Elopement -- New South Wales
- Women -- Australia -- 19th century -- Biography
- Teenage girls -- New South Wales -- 19th century -- Biography
- Scandals -- Australia
- Elopement -- New South Wales
- Trials (Kidnapping) -- Australia
- Elopement -- Australia
- Trials (Assault and battery) -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Elopement -- Australia -- New South Wales
- Scandals -- Australia -- New South Wales
- Trials (Kidnapping) -- Australia -- New South Wales
- Scandals -- New South Wales
- Trials (Kidnapping) -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Children of criminals -- New South Wales -- 19th century -- Biography
- Elopement
- Trials (Assault and battery) -- Australia
- Elopement -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Women -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Children of criminals -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Teenage girls -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Trials (Kidnapping) -- New South Wales
- Scandals -- New South Wales
- Women -- Australia -- New South Wales -- 19th century -- Biography
- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century
- Australian
- 920.7209944 23
- DU172.G55 L56 2016
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 920.72 LIN | Available | 064776 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-316) and index.
One wet autumn evening in 1848, fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Gill stole out of a bedroom window in her father's Sydney hotel and took a coach to a local racecourse. There she was to elope with James Butler Kinchela, wayward son of the former Attorney-General. Her enraged father pursued them on horseback and fired two pistols at his daughter's suitor, narrowly avoiding killing him. What followed was Australia's most scandalous abduction trial of the era, as well as an extraordinary story of adventure and misadventure, both in Australia and abroad. Through humiliation, heartache, bankruptcy and betrayal, Mary Ann hung on to James' promise to marry her. This is a compelling biography of a currency lass born when convicts were still working the streets of Sydney. Starting with just a newspaper clipping, historian Kiera Lindsey has uncovered the world of her feisty great, great, great aunt, who lived and loved during a period of dramatic social and political change.--Back cover.
