The baby farmers : a chilling tale of missing babies, shameful secrets and murder in 19th century Australia / / Annie Cossins
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Cossins Anne
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| Titolo: |
The baby farmers : a chilling tale of missing babies, shameful secrets and murder in 19th century Australia / / Annie Cossins
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| Pubblicazione: | Sydney : , : Allen & Unwin, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.15230922 |
| Soggetto topico: | Murderers |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- CONTENTS -- Author's note -- Prologue -- Part I: Who were the Makins? -- 1 The hanging -- 2 Sarah Makin: convict daughter -- 3 John Makin: son of the middle class with a past -- 4 The deadly secret in Sarah Makin's body -- Part II: Digging up the baby farmers' secrets -- 5 The baby trade -- 6 The Macdonaldtown discoveries -- 7 To catch a baby farmer -- 8 The first inquest: two babies called A and B -- 9 Constable James Joyce: Joycean fictions and the art of deceit -- 10 More digging and the strange behaviour of the Makins -- 11 The next five inquests: the Makins' lives stripped bare -- 12 The longest, saddest inquest: clothing and other complications -- 13 The mysterious Mr and Mrs Wilson give evidence -- 14 The obsessions of James Joyce: digging, redigging and more digging -- 15 Mothers, mothers everywhere: the George Street inquests begin -- 16 The day Miss Amber Murray visited the Makins -- Part III: Trials, appeals and various petitions -- 17 The trial of the century: a judge out of his depth -- 18 The first appeal: the Makins' struggle against the hand of fate -- 19 The law passes sentence -- 20 Last stop, London -- 21 Makin's last chance: an 'innocent' man under the thumb of a 'fiendish' woman -- Part IV: Sarah Makin, reformed woman -- 22 From convict daughter to convict -- 23 Was Sarah Makin really an evil, deadly woman? -- 24 The lives that were left -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The most common murder victim in 19th century Australia was a baby, and the most common perpetrator was a woman. Annie Cossins pieces together the fascinating story of the most infamous legal trial in Australia to reveal an underworld of struggling mothers, unwanted babies, and a society that preferred to turn a blind eye. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The baby farmers |
| ISBN: | 1-74343-451-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816842403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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