"The sensational lives and exploits of some of Australia's most audacious women"--Cover. Celebrates the lives of twenty of Australia's most fearless, brash and scandalous women. There's Mary Bryant, the highway robber and First Fleeter who escaped in a row boat from Port Jackson to Timor with her two children; Lola Montez, the Irish born grande horizontale, who destroyed King Ludwig I of Bavaria; Ellen Tremayne and Marion Edwards, women who challenged the gender order and became men; Pamela Travers, who wrote Mary Poppins in between writing erotic poetry; and more.
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