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The Killing of Louisa

Finally, convicted murderess Louisa Collins can tell her own story. But will she confess? Louisa Collins was hung in New South Wales in 1889. She was tried four times for the alleged murders of her two husbands. In three of those trials the juries could not agree that she was guilty. At her fourth trial the testimony of Louisa's young daughter, May, contributed to Louisa's conviction. Intimately reimagined from Louisa's perspective, with a story that just might fit the historical facts, this clever and compelling novel visits Louisa in her prison cell as she reflects on her life and the death and loss that have dictated her fate. Will she confess? Or was an innocent woman brutally hanged?

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32320004373555 F
Fiction-Adult   Maitland Library . . Available .  
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ISBN 9780702260223 (pbk.)
0702260223
Classification Number F
Author Lee, Janet
Title The Killing of Louisa [BK]
Finally, convicted murderess Louisa Collins can tell her own story. But will she confess? Louisa Collins was hung in New South Wales in 1889. She was tried four times for the alleged murders of her two husbands. In three of those trials the juries could not agree that she was guilty. At her fourth trial the testimony of Louisa's young daughter, May, contributed to Louisa's conviction. Intimately reimagined from Louisa's perspective, with a story that just might fit the historical facts, this clever and compelling novel visits Louisa in her prison cell as she reflects on her life and the death and loss that have dictated her fate. Will she confess? Or was an innocent woman brutally hanged?
Collins, Louisa, -- 1848-1889
Collins, Louisa
Subject Women murderers -- New South Wales -- Fiction
Women prisoners -- New South Wales -- Fiction
Trials (Murder) -- New South Wales -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Capital punishment -- Australia -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Women murderers -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Darlinghurst (Sydney, N.S.W.) -- History -- Fiction
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