Who Poisoned Mary Dean?: The Trial that Changed Australian Justice

Biographies & Memoirs

Garland, Maurie

Professionals & Academics

Brolga Pub.

<p>Defined as a half-caste, Jimmy Governor challenged the white man's Aboriginal stereotype of 1900 - he was highly intelligent, better educated than many of his white contemporaries, personable, a hard worker, did not drink alcohol, and married to a white woman. Only the colour of his skin prevented any rise from the lowest rung of white society. On the cold winter night of July 20, 1900, Jimmy Governor and Jacky Underwood smashed their way into the Mawbey homestead at Breelong and began killing women and children. Using meticulous research, Maurie Garland sheds new light on the Governor and Mawbey families to provide a new analysis of the story that gripped Australia in 1900.</p>

Jimmie Governor: Blood on the Tracks

History

Australia & Oceania

Horace Dean: A Pocket Full of Lies

Brolga Publishing Pty Ltd

Who was Isabella Mary Kelly? Media sensationalism and colourful folklore labeled her a wanton with a whip and a bitter sadistic hell-cat of a woman. Legends of her infamous adventures with convicts and bush rangers were told. With care and attention to detail, Maurie Garland strips back the layers of rumor and misinformation to reveal the truth about Isabella Mary Kelly, a woman alone in the unforgiving Australian outback of the mid-nineteeth century. Hers is a story of a woman ahead of her time, persecuted for her differences. A story of justice and society in the fledgling Australian colony. A story of challenge, prejudice, determination and pernicious crime; dramatic, unimaginable, scandalous - and entirely true.

The Trials of Isabella Mary Kelly: Her Legend and the Truth

Community & Culture

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