Worst Woman in Sydney

The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh

Nonfiction, History, Australia & Oceania, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Leigh Straw ISBN: 9781742242330
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press Publication: September 1, 2016
Imprint: New South Language: English
Author: Leigh Straw
ISBN: 9781742242330
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Publication: September 1, 2016
Imprint: New South
Language: English

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.

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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.

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