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The suicide bride / Tanya Bretherton.
Publication details: Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2019.Description: 311 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780733640988
- Sly family
- Sly, Ellie
- Sly, Alicks
- Sly family
- Sly, Ellie
- Sly, Alicks
- Orphans -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Suicide -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Murder victims -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Children of murder victims -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Marital violence
- Families -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- 20th century -- Biography
- Married women -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Suicide -- Investigation -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Murder -- Investigation -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Murderers -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Sydney (NS.W.) -- History -- 1901-1945
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 1901-1945
- Australian
- 364.1523 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 364.152 BRE | Available | 069304 |
Total reserves: 0
"A mystery of tragedy and family secrets in Edwardian Sydney"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-311)
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.
