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An Irresistible Temptation: The True Story of Jane New and a Colonial Scandal
by Baxter, Carol
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 174114924X
- ISBN 13
- 9781741149241
- Seller
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Benalla, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Crows Nest NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. x 422 pages, endnotes, sources, bibliography, index. There is a neat ownership signature, the pages are tanned and the shop's original barcode/price label has been attached to the back paste down, else clean, unmarked and solid. "In 1829 at the Supreme Court in Sydney, the bewitching Jane New was sentenced to death. Her crime: shoplifting a bolt of printed French silk. But was she guilty? Many had their doubts. Although a legal technicality soon quashed Jane's sentence, the autocratic Governor Ralph Darling refused to set her free. Like bees to the honey pot, the gentlemen of Sydney swarmed to Jane's defence including barrister and political agitator William Charles Wentworth and Supreme Court Registrar John Stephen Jr, who were both vigorous and manipulative in their appeals to set her free. An Irresistible Temptation is set against the backdrop of a particularly divisive period in colonial New South Wales. Not only did the scandal titillate Sydney and its legal and political ramifications push the colony to the brink of a constitutional crisis, but it contributed to the savagery of Governor Darling's public vilification and bestowed upon Jane New a place in the annals of Australian colonial history. Compelling and fast-paced, An Irresistible Temptation is a meticulously researched history that takes us from the court docks of industrialising England, to Tasmania's raw penal settlement, the rough-house world of Sydney's Rocks and eventually back to the rarefied atmosphere of Britain's House of Commons." (publisher)
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- Bookseller
- Good Reading Second Hand Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021417
- Title
- An Irresistible Temptation: The True Story of Jane New and a Colonial Scandal
- Author
- Baxter, Carol
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 174114924X
- ISBN 13
- 9781741149241
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- Crows Nest NSW
- Date Published
- 2006
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Benalla, Victoria
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Good Reading operates from a house, which is all bookshop, and holds approximately 35,000 titles. It is open by appointment only.Benalla is a country town two and a half hours north of Melbourne on both the Hume and the Midland Highway.
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