The suicide bride, Tanya Bretherton
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The suicide bride, Tanya Bretherton
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The suicide bride
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bibliography
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Tanya Bretherton
Summary
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
Target audience
adult
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- Murder victims -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- True crime stories
- Suicide -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Murderers -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Sly, Alicks
- Murder + Investigation -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 1901-1945
- Sly, Ellie
- Children of murder victims -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
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- Creator1
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- Subject9
- Murder victims -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- True crime stories
- Suicide -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Murderers -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
- Sly, Alicks
- Murder + Investigation -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 1901-1945
- Sly, Ellie
- Children of murder victims -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography
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- Author1