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

Who was Isabella Mary Kelly? Media sensationalism andcolourfulfolklore labeled her awanton with a whipand abitter sadistic hell-cat of a woman. Legends of her infamous adventures with convicts and bush rangers were told. With care and attention to detail,MaurieGarland strips back the layers ofrumorand misinformation to reveal the truth about Isabella Mary Kelly, a woman alone in the unforgiving Australian outback of themid-nineteethcentury. Hers is a story of a woman ahead of her time, persecuted for her differences. A story of justice and society in thefledglingAustralian colony. A story of challenge, prejudice, determination and pernicious crime; dramatic, unimaginable, scandalous - and entirely true.